--- name: brycewang-stanford/acl-camera-ready source: https://app.decimal.ai/s/brycewang-stanford-acl-camera-ready@1/SKILL.md source_sha256: f9d5d6fa4ee8 --- # ACL Camera Ready Use this after ACL (or Findings of ACL) acceptance. Camera-ready quality controls how the paper looks forever in the ACL Anthology, which is the permanent open-access record. For ACL 2026 the camera-ready deadline was April 19, 2026 — confirm the current edition's date in the acceptance email before planning anything. ## The extra page and what it is for - Accepted \*ACL papers traditionally receive one additional content page: long papers up to 9 pages, short papers up to 5. The page exists to address reviewer and meta-review comments, not to smuggle in a new contribution. - Spend it in priority order: fixes the meta-review asked for, clarifications reviewers requested, then de-anonymization overhead (author block, acknowledgements) which consumes real space. - References remain unlimited; the Limitations section remains **mandatory** in the camera-ready and still sits outside the page count. ## De-anonymization pass - Restore authors, affiliations, and acknowledgements; convert third-person self-citations ("Smith showed") back to natural first person where clearer. - Replace anonymous supplement links with the permanent public repository, dataset page, or model card; test every URL logged out. - Add the funding and AI-assistance acknowledgements: ACL policy requires generative-AI use beyond polishing to be disclosed, with details in the Acknowledgements matching your Responsible NLP checklist answers. ## Anthology-facing metadata | Item | Why it matters at ACL | Common error | |---|---|---| | Title/abstract in the form | Becomes the Anthology landing page | Unicode or LaTeX macros pasted raw | | Author names + order | Permanent citation record, BibTeX for everyone | Name spelled differently than prior papers | | PDF fonts embedded | Anthology archival requirement | Missing Type-1/TrueType embedding from figures | | License acceptance | Anthology publishes under CC BY 4.0 (post-2016 policy) | Assuming you can restrict reuse later | | Video/poster uploads | Linked from the Anthology page when provided | Skipped, losing visibility | Publication in the Anthology is open access with no author fee; ACL's cost model is conference registration, not APCs. ## Integrating reviewer-mandated changes Work from the meta-review, not memory: 1. Extract every "should," "must," and "the authors agreed to" from the meta-review and discussion thread into a checklist. 2. Map each to an edit: new sentence, moved table, scoped claim, added citation. The accepted contribution must not silently grow — a stronger claim than reviewers evaluated is an integrity problem, not a bonus. 3. Keep section and table numbering stable where possible so the review record still points at the right objects. 4. Re-run the checklist consistency pass: if you promised error bars or a contamination note in discussion, the camera-ready must contain it. ## Main conference vs Findings logistics - Findings papers are full peer-reviewed publications in the Anthology but are typically not part of the main oral program; presentation options (Findings poster sessions, workshop presentation slots, videos) vary per edition — check the current conference's Findings instructions rather than assuming. - Registration and presentation expectations differ by track and edition; ACL 2026 ran as a hybrid conference in San Diego (July 2-7, 2026). Verify the current attendance requirement before booking or skipping travel. ## Camera-ready week runbook ```text Day 1: meta-review edit checklist; claim-scope audit Day 2: de-anonymize; acknowledgements incl. funding + AI disclosure Day 3: public artifact links live; README + license on the repo Day 4: rebuild with final style; font embedding + page-count check Day 5: metadata form; abstract matches PDF; submit and archive everything ``` ## Common camera-ready rejections and rework requests - Unembedded fonts from matplotlib or Inkscape figures — regenerate with embedding forced rather than patching the PDF. - Title case mismatch between the form and the PDF, or LaTeX math left in the plain-text abstract field. - Author list drift: an author added or reordered after review needs chair approval, not a silent metadata edit. - Limitations section deleted "for space" — it is still required and still free; removing it can bounce the paper at publication checks. - Non-resolving artifact URLs: the Anthology page will outlive your lab server; prefer archived, versioned hosting for the link of record. ## If the paper landed in Findings - The Anthology volume is "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL " — cite and list it that way; miscrediting your own venue tier propagates into others' bibliographies. - Camera-ready mechanics are the same as main-conference papers, extra page included; deadlines are usually shared — confirm in the decision letter. - Ask early which presentation options the edition offers Findings papers (poster session, affiliated workshop slot, video); slots can require separate sign-up shortly after notification. ## Presentation assets riding the same deadline window - Poster/slide templates, video-upload requirements, and session-format details arrive with or shortly after camera-ready instructions; the video deadline is often earlier than authors expect. - Registration typically must be completed by a named author before the paper is scheduled — check the decision email for the binding rule. - Book the error budget: font, metadata, and form rejections bounce back days later, so submitting on the deadline hour forfeits the retry. ## Output format ```text [Camera-ready status] Ready / Needs fixes / Blocked [Meta-review edits] edit made> [Extra-page budget] [De-anonymization + disclosure] [Anthology package] ```