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'''EXECUTIVE SUMMARY''': BUG In the past year, we have fixed most of the problems with the ACM's ingestion of our data and have published a prototype ACL Anthology site working with a canonicalized data model.  Both actions will need to be approved by the ACL Exec before being finalized into production.  
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'''EXECUTIVE SUMMARY''': We now have two versions of the ACL Anthology site working in parallel (the new beta and our original static HTML version).  We have started ingesting attachments to papers (dataset, software, slides) and allowing user errata and revisions to be submitted.  Within the next year, we plan to convert fully to the new ACL Anthology (downing the original static version), to ingest the upcoming debut of the TCL journal into the archives, and work with STARTV2 to have further integration with the publication roles to smooth proceedings chairs' work.
  
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'''INTRO''' BUG The ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in computational linguistics, sponsored by the CL community, and freely available to all.  Conference proceedings are published in the anthology around the same time as the conference (subject to general/program chairs' discretion). CL articles are published within a few days of publication on the MIT Press website, now that CL is open access.
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'''INTRO''' The ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in computational linguistics, sponsored by the CL community, and freely available to all.  Conference proceedings are published in the anthology around the same time as the conference (subject to general/program chairs' discretion). CL articles are published within a few days of publication on the MIT Press website, now that CL is open access.  With TCL going into circulation soon, this venue will also need to be incorporated into the Anthology this coming year.
  
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The anthology now contains over 19,200 papers (up from 18,000 articles from twelve months ago). All papers prior to this conference that belong to the ACL (N.B., not sister organizations) are also indexed by the ACM Portal as per the ACL Anthology - ACM agreement.  This agreement allows the ACM to assign DOIs for ACL materials, in exchange for being able to dictate where the DOI resolution goes to (currently, the ACM Portal)
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The anthology now contains over 20,200 papers (up from 18,000 articles from twelve months ago).  
  
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'''CHANGES OVER LAST 12 MONTHS''': BUG
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'''CHANGES OVER LAST 12 MONTHS''':  
  
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With the help of Praveen Bysani at NUS, we have completed a new prototype of the ACL Anthology (http://aclanthology.heroku.com) which features faceted navigation, search and an underlying data model.  Technically, it is built using Ruby on Rails with a Project Blacklight plug-in and features OAI-PMH integration to allow third parties to ingest and list article metadata from the Anthology, and offsite Lucene indices to allow faceted search.  In creating the prototype, we have unified the metadata of all articles in the ACL Anthology, a non-trivial task since the original Anthology metadata was not of uniform quality.  Currently, minor changes to the prototype are being done to ensure that the functionality of the current Anthology are all intact in the prototype.  Once finished, we will seek the ACL Exec's approval to launch the prototype as our production Anthology, which will need to be hosted by a (commercial) third party.
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The new ACL Anthology has gone live in Feb 2012.  In this new version, we have finished our past milestones of:
  
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We have also also finished our work to ensure DBLP and ACM Portal accurately cover the Anthology materials; however, some of these changes may have not yet finalized by the opposing party at DBLP and ACM Portal. With assistance from Praveen Bysani, ACM now has a complete list of proceedings from ACL and should finalize DOI assignments for legacy materials (particularly workshops) this year and provide this information back to the ACL Anthology for our records. 
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* XML import and export of single, multiple papers and volumes
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* BibTeX and other bibliographic formats import and export of single, multiple papers and volumes
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On a related note, we have also been working with the ACM to fix how our materials appear on the ACM website.  Previously, the materials were freely accessible but only after registration of a free ACM account.  Thanks to ACL members' feedback, we considered the registration to be an unacceptable barrier to access, and ACM has since changed their layout with respect to our materials to make it easier to 1) access the PDF of the paper 2) access the ACL Anthology's page for the paper.
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* Addition of custom fields (e.g., SIG info, attachment-types)
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* Suggestion of corrections to metadata or added fields by public (to be moderated by the Anthology editor)
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Finally, we have finished our major push to incorporate our sister organizations' proceedings (ROCLING, PACLIC, ALTA, RANLP), although new forums may be undertaken in this coming year.  In particular, we expect to get past proceedings from RANLP and from LREC, as and when these organizations can make their proceedings available to us in the ACL Anthology ingestion format.
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* Incorporation of SensEval 1998, 2001, and OCR of EACL 2003 to provide the text (previously the PDFs only contained images of the text, but not the underlying text layer).
  
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'''MAILING LIST''': DONE - The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 363 members (up from 312 from last report).  This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.
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We will seek the ACL Exec's approval to launch the prototype as our production Anthology, which will need to be hosted by a (commercial) third party.
  
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'''ONGOING WORK''': The new ACL Anthology prototype (once minor edits are finished and the subsequent version approved by the ACL Exec) will enable more Web 2.0 style of interaction with our materials and guarantee a uniform level of service for all works.  A key thrust for this year will be to allow third-party applications automatically annotate articles with new metadata in the Anthology.  Such an API will raise the visibility of the Anthology as a object of study, complementing our earlier work to make the Anthology's text a corpus. In rough order of priority, we plan to finish:
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With respect to materials, we continue to integrate other CL related venues into the Anthology to increase the prestige of ACL as well as to make the Anthology even more useful.  We are incorporating TALN and have completed the incorporation of LREC and PACLIC into the Anthology.  We expect to incorporate RANLP when they can make their proceedings available to us in the ACL Anthology ingestion format.
  
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* XML import and export of single, multiple papers and volumes
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'''MAILING LIST''': The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 363 members (up from 312 from last report).  This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.
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* BibTeX and other bibliographic formats import and export of single, multiple papers and volumes
 
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* Addition of custom fields (e.g., OLAC language subject codes)
 
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* Suggestion of corrections to metadata or added fields by public (to be moderated by the Anthology editor)
 
  
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Once completed, we will plan to work with START and aclpub (courtesy connections from Steven Bird) to directly support the ACL Anthology XML format to make future events using the aclpub package easier to incorporate directly into the Anthology,
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'''ONGOING WORK''': A key thrust for this year will be to incorporate the results of the R50 workshop into the Anthology, and allow third-party applications to automatically annotate articles with new metadata and papers in the Anthology, as they come available.  Such an API will raise the visibility of the Anthology as a object of study, complementing our earlier work to make the Anthology's text a corpus. 
  
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Other work left from previous years are still queued:
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We plan to work on these other following problems, but which are less urgent:
  
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* Text for all PDF files.  Some articles (e.g., EACL 2003) only exist in image form in the Anthology, rendering indexing (and hence subsequent citation) of these articles problematic.
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* collaboration with START and aclpub
 
* PDF metadata fixing for all articles.  Crucially, Google Scholar uses this information but it is not always correctly generated.
 
* PDF metadata fixing for all articles.  Crucially, Google Scholar uses this information but it is not always correctly generated.
 
* One PDF file per article.  This is especially problematic for the J79 series, which largely represents one issue per PDF file.
 
* One PDF file per article.  This is especially problematic for the J79 series, which largely represents one issue per PDF file.

Latest revision as of 19:41, 13 February 2013

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ACL ANTHOLOGY Report June 2012, Min-Yen Kan

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: We now have two versions of the ACL Anthology site working in parallel (the new beta and our original static HTML version). We have started ingesting attachments to papers (dataset, software, slides) and allowing user errata and revisions to be submitted. Within the next year, we plan to convert fully to the new ACL Anthology (downing the original static version), to ingest the upcoming debut of the TCL journal into the archives, and work with STARTV2 to have further integration with the publication roles to smooth proceedings chairs' work.

INTRO The ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in computational linguistics, sponsored by the CL community, and freely available to all. Conference proceedings are published in the anthology around the same time as the conference (subject to general/program chairs' discretion). CL articles are published within a few days of publication on the MIT Press website, now that CL is open access. With TCL going into circulation soon, this venue will also need to be incorporated into the Anthology this coming year.

The anthology now contains over 20,200 papers (up from 18,000 articles from twelve months ago).

CHANGES OVER LAST 12 MONTHS:

The new ACL Anthology has gone live in Feb 2012. In this new version, we have finished our past milestones of:

  • XML import and export of single, multiple papers and volumes
  • BibTeX and other bibliographic formats import and export of single, multiple papers and volumes
  • Addition of custom fields (e.g., SIG info, attachment-types)
  • Suggestion of corrections to metadata or added fields by public (to be moderated by the Anthology editor)
  • Incorporation of SensEval 1998, 2001, and OCR of EACL 2003 to provide the text (previously the PDFs only contained images of the text, but not the underlying text layer).

We will seek the ACL Exec's approval to launch the prototype as our production Anthology, which will need to be hosted by a (commercial) third party.

With respect to materials, we continue to integrate other CL related venues into the Anthology to increase the prestige of ACL as well as to make the Anthology even more useful. We are incorporating TALN and have completed the incorporation of LREC and PACLIC into the Anthology. We expect to incorporate RANLP when they can make their proceedings available to us in the ACL Anthology ingestion format.

MAILING LIST: The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 363 members (up from 312 from last report). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.

ONGOING WORK: A key thrust for this year will be to incorporate the results of the R50 workshop into the Anthology, and allow third-party applications to automatically annotate articles with new metadata and papers in the Anthology, as they come available. Such an API will raise the visibility of the Anthology as a object of study, complementing our earlier work to make the Anthology's text a corpus.

We plan to work on these other following problems, but which are less urgent:

  • collaboration with START and aclpub
  • PDF metadata fixing for all articles. Crucially, Google Scholar uses this information but it is not always correctly generated.
  • One PDF file per article. This is especially problematic for the J79 series, which largely represents one issue per PDF file.
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