Submission deadline: July 15, 2020 (23:59 CET)
The accepted papers are published in an LNCS/LNAI volume entitled:
Statistical Language and Speech Processing, Seventh International Conference, SLSP 2020
Cardiff, United Kingdom - October 14-16, 2020
Luis Espinosa-Anke, Carlos Martín-Vide and Irena Spasić (Eds.)
1.- Please take carefully into account the suggestions of the reviewers and make the necessary modifications to your paper.
2.- Follow the technical instructions (described below); prepare your bibliography using BibTex together with the style splncs03.bst provided by Springer, which produces numbered citations (ignore the text in the template's sample document which suggests that author/year citations are acceptable).
3.- LNCS recommends keywords, to be added after the abstract. As the first keyword, please use one of the categories announced in the call for papers which best fits your paper (more details in the technical instructions).
4.- There is a recommended limit of 12 pages for regular contributions. For invited papers, the length is up to 24 pages.
5.- Fill in the copyright form (pdf, 65kB). It is sufficient for one of the authors to sign the copyright form. Careful, university jobs do not mean "employee of EU"!
6.- Pack your working files (tex file(s), pictures, splncs03.bst, a bibliography (.bib) file) into a zip archive. Make minimal zip archives when submitting, do not add llncs.cls, the pdf version of the paper or the copyright form.
7.- Click here to submit your files using your EasyChair author account; follow the instructions after login for uploading three files:
8.- After submitting the files, EasyChair gives some messages. ONLY ONE warning message is allowed: Package amsmath Warning: Unable to redefine math accent \vec. The rest of warnings or errors should be solved by the authors making the appropriate corrections. Pay special attention to overfull boxes!
9.- At least one author per paper should register. Papers that do not have a registered author who paid the fees by July 15, 2020 will be excluded from the proceedings. One registration gives the right to present only one paper. This will be strictly enforced. Follow the updated directions about the registration and payment procedure at the registration page. Please notice that those who will register as students will need to show the proof of their status (student ID or university certificate) at the organizers' request.
Instructions for LNCS authors are available here. Before submitting your files please verify the following checkpoints. The recommendations below follow the order we construct our document.
main.tex
, it helps the assembling task.\documentclass[runningheads, envcountsame, a4paper]{llncs}
and only these options; some packages modify the paper format to letter if a4 is not specified.Algorithm2e
for listings of algorithms.pdflatex
processes a bit better than the sequence latex, dvips, pspdf. If switching from latex to pdflatex causes problems, using these options often helps:\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}.
could help to switch from latex to pdflatex.
\usepackage[hyphens]{url}
improves the aspects of hyperlinks in the final document.\usepackage{microtype}
solves some small overfull errors.\author
use \and
as separator between authors names.{author1,author2,...}@...
please use \email{$\{$author1,... $\}$@...}
.\fnmsep
(i.e. footnote mark separator) to separate \thanks
by \inst
.\titlerunning
could be shorter than Title, please check to see if it fits in the header, if not, then you should shorten it up.\authorrunning{}
field of your article, please use only the initial of your first name, followed by a dot. The word "and" between two authors is used without a comma. If there are three or more authors, there is a comma before "and". If headings with author names are not fitting well in the page, then you should use "et al." after the first author.\toctitle
and \tocauthor, they are important fields defining your paper in the proceedings Table Of Contents.\tocauthor
use ~ between first name and name to avoid a break line inside author's names.\maketitle
\setcounter{footnote}{0}
to start footnotes from 1 after \thanks
.\section*{Acknowledgments}
.{...}
in the .bib
file.\mbox{...}
.In the printed volume, illustrations are generally black and white (halftones), and only in exceptional cases, and if the authors are prepared to cover the extra costs involved, are colored pictures accepted. Colored pictures are welcome in the electronic version free of charge. If you send colored figures that are to be printed in black and white, please make sure that they really are also legible in black and white. Some colors show up very poorly when printed in black and white.
\usepackage{times}
or other fonts), or use too many variations on fonts.\usepackage[...]{babel}
,\qed
.a4wide
or geometrix
.\vspace
, and definitely do not use \vspace
with a negative argument. If things are not going as we wish, instead of negative \vspace
there should be another solution.\newpage
for formatting reasons, trying to fit floating figures or tables.\newcommand{\keywords}...
The new LNCS style has internally defined this command.\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{caption}
\mailsa
to specify the authors' email addres, where \mailsa is defined as \urldef{\mailsa}\path|an@email}
\email{...}
command available in the llncs.cls
.\mainmatter;
this is a command only for the whole volume, for papers inside the volume this is rather undesirable.\sloppy;
a simple solution for overfull errors could be to rephrase the sentences causing problems; in many cases \usepackage{microtype}
helps too.In case we still wish to use hyperref, despite of the recommendation from Don'ts, we can do it like this: \usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
If we need subfigures, then we could
\usepackage[caption=false]{subfig} ...and when needed the subfigures...
\begin{figure}
\centering
\subfloat[label (a)\label{fig:label:a}]{
\includegraphics[width=.48\textwidth]{subfig_a}
}
\subfloat[label (b)) \label{fig:label:b}]{
\includegraphics[width=.48\textwidth]{subfig_b}
}
\caption{general caption}
\end{figure}
For tables giving an Overfull Errors, we can simply correct with \resizebox{\textwidth}{!}{\begin{tabular}{|l||c|c|c|c|c|}...\end{tabular}}
\usepackage{breqn}
to break line in equations
To scale math arrays:
\newcommand\scalemath[2]{\scalebox{#1}{\mbox{\ensuremath{\displaystyle #2}}}}
\[\scalemath{0.96}{
\begin{array}...
..\end{array}}
\]
In case we wish to avoid the warning message about redefine math accent:
\let\accentvec\vec
\documentclass[runningheads, envcountsame, a4paper]{llncs}
\let\spvec\vec
\let\vec\accentvec
In case of technical problems, please contact espinosa-ankel@cardiff.ac.uk