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ACL / EMNLP / NAACL Paper LaTeX Template

ACL Anthology style for NLP conferences (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, COLING). Two-column, acl.sty format.

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This template builds on the article document class and the following packages, already wired up in the preamble:

acllatexsymfontencmicrotypegeometryamsmathamssymbnewtxtextnewtxmathbooktabsgraphicxhyperref

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\documentclass[11pt, twocolumn]{article}
% ── Standalone fallback: compiles with any standard pdflatex install ────────
% For official ACL submission, download acl.sty from:
%   https://2024.aclweb.org/calls/papers/
% Then replace the font, geometry and hyperref lines below with:
%   \usepackage[hyperref]{acl}
% ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage[margin=2cm, columnsep=0.5cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

\title{Your ACL 2024 Paper Title}

\author{First Author \\
  University / Institution \\
  \texttt{author@email.edu} \\\\
  Second Author \\
  University / Institution \\
  \texttt{author2@email.edu}}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
This paper presents a new approach for natural language processing. Your abstract here (150--250 words).
\end{abstract}

\section{Introduction}

Introduce the task and your contributions \cite{devlin-etal-2019-bert}.

\section{Related Work}

Compare to prior work.

\section{Approach}

Describe your model or method.

\begin{equation}
  P(y|x) = \text{softmax}(W \cdot h + b)
\end{equation}

\section{Experimental Setup}

\paragraph{Datasets.} Describe datasets.

\paragraph{Baselines.} Describe baselines.

\section{Results}

\begin{table}[htbp]
  \centering
  \caption{Results on the test set.}
  \label{tab:results}
  \begin{tabular}{lcc}
    \toprule
    Model & BLEU & ROUGE-L \\
    \midrule
    Baseline & 28.4 & 52.1 \\
    Ours & \textbf{31.7} & \textbf{55.8} \\
    \bottomrule
  \end{tabular}
\end{table}

\section{Conclusion}

We proposed a new approach that...

\section*{Limitations}

Discuss limitations of your work.

\begin{thebibliography}{9}
\bibitem{devlin-etal-2019-bert}
Devlin, J., Chang, M.-W., Lee, K., \& Toutanova, K. (2019).
BERT: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for language understanding.
\textit{Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2019}, 4171--4186.
\end{thebibliography}

\end{document}

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