2009Q3 Reports: ACL Anthology
The ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in computational linguistics, sponsored by the CL community, and freely available to all. It includes the Computational Linguistics journal, and proceedings of many conferences and workshops including: ACL, EACL, NAACL, ANLP, TINLAP, COLING, HLT, MUC, and Tipster. Conference proceedings are published in the anthology around the same time as the conference. CL articles are published in the anthology roughly one year in arrears (but individual subscribers can access recent issues electronically via the MIT Press website).
The anthology now contains over 15,900 papers (up from 13,600 papers twelve months ago), along with full-text search (provided by Google's Custom Search API). Most of the papers are also indexed by Citeseer and Google Scholar, helping the citation counts of ACL authors. The ACM Digital Library is creating rich metadata and doing full citation linking for all anthology materials.
ADDITIONS OVER LAST 12 MONTHS: As promised, we have finished the ingestion of IJCNLP 2005 and 2008 and have incorporated the listing of LREC 2008 papers. We have also worked with ACL conference organizers to list the conference and associated workshop papers on the dates of the conference. Similarly, CL journal issues are usually listed and anthologized within 48 hours of release from the MIT Press website.
MAILING LIST: The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 176 members (up from 94 from last report). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.
FUTURE MATERIALS:
ONGOING WORK: