ABOUT THIS CDROM

All 279 papers on this CDROM have the following 4 links available:

PDFS = PDF version of the paper stamped with citation information
PDF = Original PDF versions of the paper
PS = Original Postscript versions of the paper
BIB = Bibtex citation entry for the paper (including ACL Anthology ID Number)

All web page archives are current as of June 8, 2003.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

All tables of contents, index pages and bibtex entries on this CDROM were created automatically using a set of tools developed by David Yarowsky for the first ACL CDROM in 2000, and used for most ACL, NAACL and HLT conferences since then. Improvements this year include the generation of ACL anthology structures, and a web interface for paper and bibliographic data submissions by authors. This interface generated a master paper information database ('db' file), over which additional tools more-or-less automatically generated the table-of-contents, author indexes and meeting schedules for both the hardcopy proceedings and CDROM, as well as converted automatically to ACL Anthology format.
The design of this CDROM was based heavily on an original 2000 design by Silviu Cucerzan. Silviu also created and implemented the final design for the CDROM banner image.
The original CDROM banner design, and the design and implementation of most of the archived website pages on this CDROM are due to Eiko Yamamoto, ACL-2003 webmaster.
The automatic stamping of the PDF files with citation information was accomplished using programs designed by Jason Eisner.
Special thanks are due to Drago Radev for his numerous contributions to the ACL CDROM creation processes over the past 2 1/2 years.
Masashi Okamoto did a very nice job designing the CDROM jewelcase and cover.
Yoji Kiyota physically burned this CDROM from an archive finalized in Baltimore on June 11, 2003, and he also helped with several other aspects of its preparation, including format and link verification.
Daisuke Kawahara helped prepare electronic front materials for several volumes of the proceedings.
Additional special thanks are due to the ACL-2003 program chairs, all workshop organizers and the interactive poster session chair for providing all of the proceedings preface materials, verifying and augmenting the standardized 'db' files, and for their careful proofreading of their sections of the CDROM.
Numerous others have contributed to this CDROM in important ways. They include Jun'Ichi Tsujii (for his very welcome support and advice), Takenobu Tokunaga (who helped coordinate all workshop material submissions), Hitoshi Isahara (for the multi-faced work of his publicity committee), Alison Mackey (for her continual support during this process), Steven Bird, Priscilla Rasmussen, Kenji Araki and other members of the ACL-2003 committees.
Thank you all!

- David Yarowsky and Sadao Kurohashi

Publications Chairs

and Creators of the ACL-2003 CDROM Proceedings