Abstract

The Association of Computational Linguistic’s Anthology is the open source archive, and the main source for computational linguistics and natural language processing’s scientific literature. The ACL Anthology is currently maintained exclusively by community volunteers and has to be available and up-to-date at all times. We first discuss the current, open source approach used to achieve this, and then discuss how the planned use of Docker images will improve the Anthology’s long-term stability. This change will make it easier for researchers to utilize Anthology data for experimentation. We believe the ACL community can directly benefit from the extension-friendly architecture of the Anthology. We end by issuing an open challenge of reviewer matching we encourage the community to rally towards.

Highlights

  • The ACL Anthology1 is a service offered by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) allowing open access to the proceedings of all ACL sponsored conferences and journal articles

  • The ACL Anthology is a key resource for researchers in the NLP community

  • We have described the software engineering and maintenance work that goes on behind-the-scenes in order for the Anthology to serve its purpose

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Summary

Introduction

The ACL Anthology is a service offered by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) allowing open access to the proceedings of all ACL sponsored conferences and journal articles. As a community goodwill gesture, it hosts third-party computational linguistics literature from sister organizations and their national venues It offers both text and faceted search of the indexed papers, author-specific pages, and can incorporate third-party metadata and services that can be embedded within pages (Bysani and Kan, 2012). Running a key service for the computational linguistics community that needs to be continuously available and updated frequently is one of the main issues in administering the Anthology. We discuss this issue along with the challenges of running a large scale project on a volunteer basis and its resulting technical debt. Beyond being useful in itself, work on such challenges has the potential to motivate the ACL community to further support the Anthology

Current State of the Anthology
Running the Anthology as a Community Project
Future Proofing the Anthology
Challenges for the Anthology
Conclusion
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