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Information for Authors

The following page contains important information about the submission process for TALLIP, the review process, various ACM author tools and services, and the ORCID global researcher registry. Prospective authors are strongly encouraged to read this entire page.

Authors are also strongly advised to read the ACM Author Representations Policy. This outlines the representation each author implicitly makes when submitting a paper to an ACM journal.

TALLIP will be listed in the Science Citation Index Expanded starting with the first 2015 issue, 14(1). TALLIP will be included in the 2017 Journal Citation Report, and the first Impact Factor will be published mid-2018.

Scope

TALLIP primarily consists of original research papers reporting substantial research findings. Papers describing reproducible techniques and theory for systems and applications are considered. Descriptions of specific products with no proof of reproducibility are not appropriate for TALLIP.

TALLIP covers all areas of information processing for Asian languages as well as low-resource languages of Africa, Australasia, Oceania and the Americas, including theory, systems design, evaluation, and applications. Emphasis will be placed on the originality and relevance of theory, technology, and applications in the field.

Submission

Please submit papers in PDF format using the web-based submission system Manuscript Central.

TALLIP is electronically produced, so it is imperative that all manuscripts submitted for publication in TALLIP be prepared in electronic format. Articles published in TALLIP are prepared for both print and digital display in the ACM Digital Library. Instructions on preparing your manuscript for submission to TALLIP are available at: http://www.acm.org/publications/submissions

Papers submitted to TALLIP are of three categories. The author should specify the category of the submission at the time the manuscript is submitted:

  • Long Papers: These must be at least 13 journal pages in length and must describe substantial research results either in terms of experiments, new findings and/or substantial resources of use to the research community.
  • Survey Papers: A paper that summarizes and organizes recent research results in a novel way that integrates and adds understanding to work in the field. A survey article assumes a general knowledge of the area; it emphasizes the classification of the existing literature, developing a perspective on the area, and evaluating trends.
  • Short Papers: These are typically between 6 and 12 journal pages in length. Short papers may report small experiments that are not substantial enough for a long paper, or may, for example, document problems with previously published research.
  • TALLIP Notes: This type of paper is typically the length of a Short Paper and is to be used to describe work on a low-resource language where there has been very little or no prior work. For this category of paper the computational techniques proposed are not expected to be novel, but the paper must demonstrate a significant contribution to the computational linguistics or speech processing for the language in question. Papers submitted to this category are expected to emphasize linguistically interesting properties of the language, and show how those properties are exploited in a computational system. That is, the problem addressed must be a non-trivial one, and the techniques applied must show a clear benefit. Where possible, comparison to a related language that is richer in resources and better studied is encouraged: thus a paper on Lao might compare the situation in that language with work on Thai. Note: We do not define "low-resource" a priori: the authors of papers submitted as TALLIP Notes must make it clear that the language in question has been little studied, and has few or no resources available.
  • Review Articles: TALLIP is open to articles that provide literature and/or technology reviews in one of the areas covered in the journal charter. To be considered for publication, such an article must provide information that is substantially different from what is available in the literature. Additionally, a review article should not just be a summarization of previous work: It must also be a work of exegesis. That is, the author(s) must show how the different strands of work relate to each other, as well as offer a view of where the field under review is going. A survey or review article submitted to TALLIP will go through the usual review process only if the editors feel the submission adheres to the above guidelines. Note: Authors of review articles must submit a cover letter that clearly states why they believe their contribution adds useful material not covered elsewhere.

A submitted paper that obviously does not conform to the requirements listed above and does not meet the subject-matter requirements described in the editorial charter will be rejected without review.

The Editor-in-Chief will assign each submission to an Associate Editor with expertise in the appropriate area. The Associate Editor will be responsible for obtaining at least three reviews of the paper and make a recommendation to the Editor-in-Chief. According to the recommendation, the Editor-in-Chief will decide whether to publish the paper. Note that both categories of papers will be rigorously reviewed with an eye to what the contribution of the paper is to the field of information processing for Asian or low-resource languages as described above.

However, in view of the difficulty of finding competent reviewers willing to review papers, papers that are obviously not up to the standards of the field in terms of technical content may subject to "desk rejection". In such a case, the Editor-in-Chief will usually consult with one of the Associate Editors. If in the opinion of both editors the paper is not worth sending out for review (because it would certainly be rejected by reviewers), the paper will be rejected, and an explanation of the rejection sent to the author.

To ensure proper indexing, classification, retrieval, and dissemination, authors must include the following in the manuscript:

  • Title
  • Author names and affiliations
  • Abstract
  • Content indicators
  • Citations to relevant literature

TALLIP requires a submitted paper to have at least 25% new content when compared to a previously published version of the paper in a conference or workshop. TALLIP strives to provide a quick turnaround time. In 2013, for example, the mean turnaround time from submission to first decision was under 60 days.

In addition, authors who are resubmitting papers that have previously been reviewed and returned to the authors should bear the following in mind:

  1. Starting with papers originally submitted after May 15, 2014, all resubmissions must be accompanied by a description of how the comments from the previous round of reviews have been addressed. This description should be appended to the end of the paper after the references. Resubmitted papers that are not accompanied by such a description are subject to rejection without review.
  2. Papers are assigned a category which is one of Accept, Minor Revision, Major Revision, Reject & Resubmit and Reject. If a paper that has been assigned to the "Major Revision" or "Reject & Resubmit" category on the first review is resubmitted, that paper must be deemed to merit a category better than "Major Revision" upon the second review. If it does not, then the paper will be rejected. This policy is in place in the interests of conserving reviewer resources and not spending them on papers that are only incrementally improved at each review cycle.

Style Guidelines

Numbered section headings should be used to facilitate readability. The article should clearly describe previous research on related topics. Care should be taken to specify clearly all procedures essential to the research. When a paper concerns a new piece of software, comparisons to similar programs, benchmarks, and a discussion of limitations should be included.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to quote long passages (60 words or more) from any material that appeared in a non-ACM publication.

TITLE AND ABSTRACT

Use a specific and informative title. Typically, a title contains from 6 to 12 words. Avoid special symbols and formulas in titles unless essential to indicate content. Authors' names should be given without titles or degrees, along with the affiliated organizations. Current mailing addresses, including email addresses, should be given in a footnote.

The abstract should be 150 to 200 words long and should consist of short, direct, and complete sentences. The abstract should state the objectives of the work, summarize the results, and give the principal conclusions. It should also indicate whether the focus is on theoretical developments or on practical questions and whether subject matter or method is emphasized. Avoid starting with the words "This paper." Work planned but not done should not be described in the abstract. Because abstracts are often extracted from a paper and used separately, avoid the use of the first person, display mathematics, and citations.

AIDS FOR CLASSIFICATION

Categories and Subject Descriptors should be selected from the ACM Computing Classification System (CCS2012), which can be found at http://www.acm.org/about/class/2012. Use as many descriptors as applicable. General Terms are those common to more than one area of computing and are chosen from the fixed list that accompanies the classification system. Please read the HOW TO CLASSIFY WORKS USING ACM'S COMPUTING CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM for instructions on how to classify your document using the 2012 ACM Computing Classification System, and insert the index terms into your LaTeX or Microsoft Word source file.

Additional Keywords and Phrases consist of English language words that may also be useful for indexing. These may be synonymous with terms in the classification system, may be more specific than the subject descriptors, or may not be covered by the existing system at all. In this last case, use specific terms whose meaning is generally accepted in the computing community. Do not use broad, catchall terms (such as computer, system, or automatic) and do not use private terms or acronyms.

MATHEMATICAL AND SYMBOLIC EXPRESSIONS

Short mathematical equations and other expressions in the text should be run in (instead of each being displayed on a separate line). Avoid exponents having multiple levels of superscription: instead of e sup {x sup 2 + y sup 2}, use exp (x sup 2 + y sup 2). Likewise, avoid the use of built-up fractions in the text. For example, instead of {1} over {n}, use either 1 / n or the negative exponent form n sup -1. In display matter, however, built-up fractions are preferred for clarity. Likewise, avoid small-type mathematical expressions centered above or below arrows.

Equations that are referred to later in the text should be numbered sequentially and referred to, for instance, as Eq. 1. Do not number equations that are not referred to in the text.

STATISTICS

For empirical studies, the procedure should be presented in sufficient detail to be replicated by other researchers. Statistical tests should be included to support empirical claims. When reporting statistics, the name of the statistic, the degrees of freedom, the value obtained, and the p-value should be reported, e.g., F(3,65) = 4.83, p < 0.01.

Figures

Figures include graphs of results, schematic drawings, samples of output, screen, and photographs of special equipment or displays. Each figure should be numbered and have a caption. Upon publication, figures will be reduced to approximately 12.7 cm (5 inches) in width. Care should be taken to ensure that the legends and labels within the figure are large enough to be readable after they are reduced. For final submissions, high quality (at least 600 dpi) figures should be included. Color prints can be reproduced, although this adds to production costs and must be approved by the Editor-in-Chief.

CITATIONS AND THE REFERENCE LIST

Relevant publications accessible to the public (i.e., articles in standard journals and open conference proceedings) should be cited. References cited in the text should include the last name of the author(s) and the year of publication, for example [Bush 1945] or [Salton and McGill 1983]. When the citation(s) includes three or more authors, only the first author should be mentioned by name (e.g., [Foley et al. 1990]). A trailing lower case letter should distinguish multiple papers by the same author(s) published during a single year, for example [Winograd and Flores 1987a]. Multiple citations in the same sentence should be enclosed within brackets and separated by semicolons, for example, [Halasz 1988; VanRijsbergen 1975].

The reference list should be arranged alphabetically by the author's last name, followed by the date. In the case of multiple listings by a single author, the earliest publication appears first. When an author is listed both as a single author and as a senior author with coauthor(s), all of the single-author listings precede the multiple-author listings, with the latter arranged alphabetically by last name of successive authors. Again, chronological order is used for multiple papers by the same set of authors. The lowercase letter used in the citation to distinguish multiple papers by the same author(s) in the same year should be displayed in the reference list.

References to items in periodicals: These should take the form: author, title, journal, volume number, date, and pages. Author(s) should be given last name first; likewise for editors, with the name followed by (Ed.). The author's name always ends with a period, either the period that follows the initial or a period specifically for that purpose. This is followed by the year. In the title, only the first word and proper names (or their derivatives) should be capitalized, and the title should end with a period. For example:

SCHWARTZ, J.T. 1980 Ultracomputers, ACM Trans. Program Lang. Syst. 2, 4 , 484-521.

References to reports or proceedings:

Author(s) and title - same as for periodicals. This is followed by the report number, source, date, and pages.

References to books: Author(s) - same as above. Title - all principal words start with a capital letter. The title is followed by the publisher, city, year, and any specific chapters or pages.

Optional Supplemental Online-only Material

Please provide a brief description of your supplementary online-only material (i.e., text and multimedia material) to be published in the Digital Library. A short “readme.txt” file will appear in the DL along with your supplementary material describing its content and whatever requirements there are for using it.

Abstracting of material in ACM publications is permitted with credit to the source. Libraries are permitted to photocopy beyond the limits of U.S. Copyright Law, for private use of patrons, those articles that carry a code at the bottom of the first page, provided the per-copy fee indicated in the code is paid through the Copyright Clearance Center (P.O. Box 675, Schenectady, NY 12301, USA). Instructors are permitted to photocopy isolated articles for non-commercial classroom use without fee.

PROOFS

The first author will receive page proofs; these should be checked and returned promptly. Although the ACM staff copyedits manuscripts, the author is solely responsible for marking errors. Substantive changes should be approved by the Editor-in-Chief. 

ORCID Requirements

ACM requires that all accepted journal authors register and provide ACM with valid ORCIDs prior to paper publication. Corresponding authors are responsible for collecting these ORCIDs from co-authors and for providing them to ACM as part of the ACM eRights selection process. For journals using the ScholarOne submission system, the submitting author will be required to provide their own ORCID upon submission. Authors are strongly encouraged, but not required, to include ORCIDs for all authors in their source files.  Please note: ACM only requires you to complete the initial ORCID registration process. However, ACM encourages you to take the additional step to claim ownership of all your published works via the ORCID site.

ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission and supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities - ensuring that your work receives proper recognition. This requirement will also enable ACM to provide improvements to the normalization process of ACM Digital Library author profile data, aid in the detection of undeclared conflicts of interest and other publications-related misconduct in ACM Publications, assist with the implementation of ACM Open, and offer a host of other researcher benefits to ACM authors and the scientific community.

Before submission, the corresponding author should register for an ORCID.  Your co-authors should also create their individual ORCIDs at that time and add them to their accounts in the manuscript submission system. Otherwise, you will need to enter them manually into the ACM rights system upon paper acceptance and before publication in the ACM Digital Library. Simple instructions for complying with this mandate are provided inside the ACM eRights system.

ORCID information for all authors will appear on the article’s page in the ACM Digital Library. If ORCIDs are included in an article’s source files, they will also be linked in the published output.

The ACM ORCID FAQ should answer many of your questions.

ACM Policies

As a published ACM author, you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies.

ACM Policy on Authorship

The ACM Policy on Authorship and the associated list of Frequently Asked Questions cover the criteria for authorship and for submission, as well as acceptable and unacceptable authorship practices.

ACM Conflict of Interest (COI) Policy

The ACM Conflict of Interest (COI) Policy describes what a COI is, who is responsible for being aware of such conflicts, how to manage COIs, and how to report violations.

ACM Peer Review Policy

ACM recognizes that the quality of a refereed publication rests primarily on the impartial judgment of their volunteer reviewers. Expectations of reviewers and ACM, including key topics such as confidentiality, the use of large language models in the peer review process, and conflicts of interest, can be found in the ACM Peer Review Policy and its associated list of Frequently Asked Questions.

ACM Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects

All authors conducting research involving human participants and subjects must meet appropriate ethical and legal standards guiding such research. These requirements are detailed in the ACM Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects.

Templates

Manuscripts accepted for publication in any ACM publication must be formatted using the ACM authoring template. Submissions must also use the ACM authoring templates. ACM style files will closely approximate the final output, enabling authors to judge the page-length of their published articles.

ACM authoring templates and detailed instructions on formatting can be found at http://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions. For both Word and Latex technical support, contact [email protected].

ACM Computing Classification System (CCS)

If your paper has been accepted, please read the HOW TO CLASSIFY WORKS USING ACM'S COMPUTING CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM for instructions on how to classify your document using the CCS and insert the index terms into your LaTeX or Microsoft Word source file. Providing the proper indexing and retrieval information from the CCS provides the reader with quick content reference, facilitating the search for related literature, as well as searches for your work in ACM's Digital Library and on other online resources.

Author Rights

ACM authors can manage their publication rights in either of the following ways:

  • A license granting ACM non-exclusive permission to publish—allowing authors to self-manage all rights to their work by choosing to pay for perpetual open access from the ACM Digital Library.
  • A publishing license agreement granting ACM exclusive publication rights—by granting ACM the right to serve as the exclusive publisher of a work and to manage ongoing rights and permissions associated with the work, including the right to defend it against improper use by third parties. (This license is roughly the equivalent of ACM’s traditional Copyright Transfer Agreement except that the author continues to hold copyright.)

As of January 2023, per decision of the ACM Publications Board, the traditional Copyright Transfer Agreement option is no longer available for ACM authors.  ACM will continue to defend all ACM-published works against improper use when allegations of publication-related misconduct are brought to light.  For more information please refer to this article in The Blue Diamond.

Additionally, ACM authors may post all versions of their work, with the exception of the final published "Version of Record", to non-commercial repositories such as ArXiv. See the ACM Author Rights page for additional information.

Learn more, including about posting to pre-print servers and institutional repositories, by visiting the ACM Author Rights page.

Open Access

ACM has made a commitment to become a fully sustainable and Plan S compliant Open Access (OA) scholarly publisher within approximately five years. ACM offers a number of ways to achieve this goal, including Hybrid OA, Gold OA, and the ACM OPEN program.

Most ACM journals, with the following exceptions, are Hybrid OA.  ACM Gold OA journals are:

Click here to view the Article Processing Charges (APCs) to publish your article Open Access.

Additionally, all corresponding authors from an institution participating in ACM OPEN will have their research articles published OA at the time of publication at no cost to the authors.  Click here for a list of participating institutions. To ensure eligibility for the program, corresponding authors from participating institutions must use their institutional email address upon submission.

Language Services

ACM has partnered with International Science Editing (ISE) to provide language editing services to ACM authors. ISE offers a comprehensive range of services for authors including standard and premium English language editing, as well as illustration and translation services, and also has significant outreach in China. Editing is available for both Word and LaTeX files. As an ACM author, you will receive a generous discount on ISE editing services. To take advantage of this partnership, visit the Dedicated ACM Editing Service. (Editing services are at author expense and do not guarantee publication of a manuscript.)

Author-izer Service

Once your manuscript is published, this service allows you to generate and post a link on your home page or institutional repository to your published article. This link will let any visitors to your personal bibliography pages download the definitive version of the articles for free from the ACM DL. These downloads will be recorded as part of your DL usage statistics. A detailed description of the service and instructions for its use may be found at the ACM Author-Izer Service page.

LaTeX Collaborative Authoring Tool on Overleaf Platform

ACM has partnered with https://www.overleaf.com/, a free cloud-based, authoring tool, to provide an ACM LaTeX authoring template. Authors can easily invite colleagues to collaborate on their document. Among other features, the platform automatically compiles the document while an author writes, so the author can see what the finished file will look like in real time. Further information can be found at https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions. The ACM LaTeX template on Overleaf platform is available to all ACM authors https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/acm-official#.WOuOk2e1taQ.

Kudos Article Sharing Platform

Kudos is a free service that you can use to promote your work more effectively. After your paper has been accepted and uploaded to the ACM Digital Library, you'll receive an invitation from Kudos to create an account and add a plain-language description. The Kudos “Shareable PDF” allows you to generate a PDF to upload to websites, such as your homepage, institutional repository, preprint services, and social media. This PDF contains a link to the full-text version of your article in the ACM DL, adding to download and citation counts.

Author Gateway

Please be sure to visit the ACM Author Portal for additional important author information.

Contact Us

For further assistance and questions regarding the journal editorial review process and paper assignment to an issue, contact the journal administrator ([email protected]).