• Final submissions should be submitted via the START conference submission system.

The submission deadlines for papers to be published in the Proceedings of TC46 are as follows:

(NOTE: Actual dates were initially published late August 2024 and some may be revised as necessary to achieve the goal to publish this year’s proceedings in time for the conference or shortly thereafter.)

Authors of Main Track and Poster Track submissions

• are being informed that their submission are accepted, 5-7 September 2024.

Authors to these tracks agreed to submit a paper to be published in the Proceedings of TC46. As these papers need to be peer-reviewed they have an earlier deadline:

• For Main Track papers (academic-style, 5000 words max.) – Sunday, 6 October 2024;
• For Poster Track papers (academic-style, 2000 words max.) – also Sunday, 6 October 2024;

• For non-academic / user-experience papers – as these will not undergo peer review – Friday, 25 October 2024;
• For post facto papers reporting on the results of Workshops and Panels – Friday, 22 November 2024;

As was the case in 2021, 2022, and 2023 AsLing will provide a separate site for authors to upload final manuscripts of academic papers or final versions of poster papers following peer review. This will be announced at a later date, shortly before peer reviews are returned.

• Submissions can be edited or corrected up until the respective deadline.

Authors should please check out the templates and other instructions they will be expected to adhere to when preparing and submitting their final papers. To assist authors, we provide links to these, below.

Manuscripts of all final papers and posters must be submitted using one of the template formats provided. For all papers, except where a submission was made via the Poster/Short talk Track the word limit is 5,000 words. Poster Track submission papers have a 2,000 word limit. Word limits EXCLUDE references and bibliography, as well as the abstract. Abstracts should be between 150 and 200 words.

Formal papers describing workshops should adhere to the rules for final papers connected to talks. Non-academic papers expanding on user session talks should follow the same general format as other final papers, starting with an abstract, followed by the body of the paper, and ending with (in these cases, optional) references and bibliography. The body of non-academic papers may be structured freely. A summing up or conclusions section as the final part of the body is desirable in these papers, but not mandatory.

TC46 provides this description as Microsoft Word templates (both .docx and .doc versions). OpenOffice and LibreOffice users should be able to open MS-Word templates in their software.

• tc46(Word).zip – contains all of the following 5 files
• docx – in MS-Word 2007 and newer format. This document contains the formatting instructions for preparing a camera-ready version of papers accepted for publication in the TC46 Proceedings. The document itself conforms to its own specifications, and is therefore an example of what your manuscript should look like. Authors are asked to conform to all the directions reported in this document.
• dotx – template for use in MS-Word 2007 and newer versions to format your manuscript.
• doc – in MS-Word 97-2003 format. Otherwise the same as tc46.docx.
• dot – template for use in MS-Word 97-2003 to format your manuscript.
• tc46(Word).pdf – output in Portable Document format, of tc46.docx.

Final paper and poster manuscripts should be submitted via the START conference submission system. Please upload your final manuscripts or final versions of poster papers to:

https://www.softconf.com/n/tc2024/

Your submission will be directly accessible by any author registered in the original proposal via its title in the “Your submission(s)” list.

You do not need to access it via the “Access to submissions using the passcode” route. Should you wish to, nevertheless, please refer to your original submission confirmation mails, or the mail in which we confirmed acceptance of your proposal. You may also contact us at submissions@asling.org, allowing 1-2 days to retrieve your passcode.

Select your submission, then choose the menu option which appears:

Final submission: Submit your Final submission.

Please make sure you have used the above links to read the instructions and use the correct format templates or style sheets for your final manuscripts, before you upload the final versions of your paper or poster.

Main Track and Poster Track papers will be sent for peer review and you will receive feedback on this review, whereupon you will be asked to submit a revised paper. Details for post-peer-review actions will be provided in due time.

1. You have the option to edit the Title and Short Abstract that you entered for your original submission.
2. (Please note that changes to the list of co-authors or, if necessary, to your extended abstract, can only be made by sending these to us at submissions@asling.org and are subject to AsLing approval. Make sure you include the following information in the Subject text of your mail: TC46, the Submission number, and at least the surname of the corresponding author. The authors’ names in the paper and the START system must match.
3. You will also be required to upload a file containing biographical information for you and that of all co-authors. You may provide the same file you uploaded for your initial submission(s) by limiting the text, per author, to a maximum of 500 words.
4. You may also upload new, revised digital photos of yourself and of your co-author(s), for use on our site as well as in the Authors section of the conference proceedings. If you wish us to use the photo(s) you uploaded for the initial submission, please indicate. In the case of multiple authors, please combine the image files of all authors into an archive file (zip, rar, tar, tgz, tgz2, or similar format).
5. The editable version of your final paper/Poster as above.

Final submissions may be edited or corrected up until the respective submission deadline (see above).

Only papers meeting all submission guidelines, submitted by the deadline, for which at least one of the authors has duly registered will be included for publishing in the E-Proceedings of the 46th Translating and the Computer Conference Proceedings 2024, which will be published with an ISBN number.

5 September 2024