2018Q3 Reports: ACL Anthology - Revision history

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Accomplishments for this year

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	# Negotiating with Google Scholar to index aclanthology.info. While done, this is a temporary fix until the Anthology can find a home within www.aclweb.org as required by Google Scholar.		# Negotiating with Google Scholar to index aclanthology.info. While done, this is a temporary fix until the Anthology can find a home within www.aclweb.org as required by Google Scholar.
	# End of lifetime support for the legacy Anthology		# End of lifetime support for the legacy Anthology.
	# Containerization of the Anthology. '''We need volunteers to create a network of mirrors to the Anthology'''		# Incorporation of ACL 2017 materials with DOIs printed on the actual paper proceedings. Unfortunately, there has not been take up of this idea with more recent conference chairs.
	# Publication of a short paper in the NLP-OSS workshop with volunteer group		# Containerization of the Anthology. '''We need volunteers to create a network of mirrors to the Anthology'''.
	# Moving the Anthology (-PDFs) from the NUS underresourced Virtual Machine to Universität des Saarlands		# Publication of a short paper in the NLP-OSS workshop with volunteer group.
			# Moving the Anthology (-PDFs) from the NUS underresourced Virtual Machine to Universität des Saarlands.
	# Massive CL/NLP BibTeX file. We recreate a single BibTeX file for all Anthology materials after a period of ingestions.		# Massive CL/NLP BibTeX file. We recreate a single BibTeX file for all Anthology materials after a period of ingestions.
	# Incorporating of historical ingestion logs in the public Google Doc		# Incorporating of historical ingestion logs in the public Google Doc.
	# Refinement of outstanding issues into the GitHub open source codebase		# Refinement of outstanding issues into the GitHub open source codebase.
	# Migration the GitHub codebase to the central ACL GitHub account		# Migration the GitHub codebase to the central ACL GitHub account.

	== Plans, Prioritized ==		== Plans, Prioritized ==

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	'''Anthology Steering Committee (ASC) and the Anthology Advisory Board (AAB)'''. The ASC was created at the behest of the ACL Anthology Editor to oversee the Anthology, as the responsibility for the entire CL/NLP literature is too large for a single person to manage. The ASC consists of Jing-Shin Chang as ACL Info Officer, Min-Yen Kan as ACL Anthology Editor and Paola Merlo as CL Editor. Attempts to convene the ASC this past year failed due to several missed meetings and difficulty finding good availability between its three members. With the pressing need for better management, Marti Hearst, ACL President, commissioned a Anthology Advisory Board (consisting of Steven Bird as an informal adviser, Bonnie Dorr, Min-Yen Kan as ACL Anthology Editor, Dragomir Radev as chair, Stuart Shieber, Mark Steedman and Simone Teufel) to find and replace the current Editor by end of 2018. This Board is currently working on the matter.		'''Anthology Steering Committee (ASC) and the Anthology Advisory Board (AAB)'''. The ASC was created at the behest of the ACL Anthology Editor to oversee the Anthology, as the responsibility for the entire CL/NLP literature is too large for a single person to manage. The ASC consists of Jing-Shin Chang as ACL Info Officer, Min-Yen Kan as ACL Anthology Editor and Paola Merlo as CL Editor. Attempts to convene the ASC this past year failed due to several missed meetings and difficulty finding good availability between its three members. With the pressing need for better management, Marti Hearst, ACL President, commissioned a Anthology Advisory Board (consisting of Steven Bird as an informal adviser, Bonnie Dorr, Min-Yen Kan as ACL Anthology Editor, Dragomir Radev as chair, Stuart Shieber, Mark Steedman and Simone Teufel) to find and replace the current Editor by end of 2018. This Board is currently working on the matter.

			'''Anthology Server Home'''. The Anthology's current home at Saarlands will possibly need to change soon as the two volunteers helping the Editor to maintain it are leaving soon. There may be no technical staff that can manage the Anthology. There were plans to integrate the Anthology with the VPS shared hosting of aclweb.org, but is of current, there is no firm date or plan to do the migration. '''This is an issue that needs to be resolved.'''

	'''Mailing List'''. The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 895 members (up from 763 from a year ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.		'''Mailing List'''. The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 895 members (up from 763 from a year ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.

Knmnyn at 17:07, 27 June 2018

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	The Anthology now contains over 44,600 (up from 42,100 papers in the last report in Q3). As many may know there are two versions of the Anthology, a legacy version at http://www.aclweb.org/anthology and a current one at http://aclanthology.info . Due to time constraints by the Editor, and the fact that we have both Anthologies for over 2 years as a transition period, we have stopped maintaining the legacy site. Work still remains to port all of the accepted functionality over to the current site (i.e., handling errata, full text search, redirections from the legacy site to the current one, and archiving access statistics among others). However, the development of new features is heavily constrained by the time bandwidth of the Editor, as the popularity of NLP/CL publications continues to grow, and hence its workload for all tasks routine and exceptional. The current Anthology is physically hosted at Universität des Saarlands, in a well-resourced virtual machine, but may need to find a new home soon due to volunteers ending their term with the hosting group.		The Anthology now contains over 44,600 (up from 42,100 papers in the last report in Q3). As many may know there are two versions of the Anthology, a legacy version at http://www.aclweb.org/anthology and a current one at http://aclanthology.info . Due to time constraints by the Editor, and the fact that we have both Anthologies for over 2 years as a transition period, we have stopped maintaining the legacy site. Work still remains to port all of the accepted functionality over to the current site (i.e., handling errata, full text search, redirections from the legacy site to the current one, and archiving access statistics among others). However, the development of new features is heavily constrained by the time bandwidth of the Editor, as the popularity of NLP/CL publications continues to grow, and hence its workload for all tasks routine and exceptional. The current Anthology is physically hosted at Universität des Saarlands, in a well-resourced virtual machine, but may need to find a new home soon due to volunteers ending their term with the hosting group.

	'''Anthology Steering Committee'''. The ASC ~~currently~~ consists of Jing-Shin Chang, Min-Yen Kan and Paola Merlo. ~~The~~ ASC ~~met virtually on 14 Jul 2016~~. ~~The ASC also discussed supplementary materials in~~ the ~~ACL Anthology and other authority networks (~~for ~~papers~~, ~~authors~~, ~~etc.) that may be being used~~, ~~proposed by other institutions~~ (~~e.g.~~, ~~MIT Press for CL journal)~~, ~~and revisions and better placement of the contributor's instructions for new material Anthology ingestion. Due to~~ Min-Yen~~'s involvement in~~ ACL ~~2017, the ASC has yet to meet for its next meeting but may be able to do so physically soon.~~		'''Anthology Steering Committee (ASC) and the Anthology Advisory Board (AAB)'''. The ASC was created at the behest of the ACL Anthology Editor to oversee the Anthology, as the responsibility for the entire CL/NLP literature is too large for a single person to manage. The ASC consists of Jing-Shin Chang as ACL Info Officer, Min-Yen Kan as ACL Anthology Editor and Paola Merlo as CL Editor. Attempts to convene the ASC this past year failed due to several missed meetings and difficulty finding good availability between its three members. With the pressing need for better management, Marti Hearst, ACL President, commissioned a Anthology Advisory Board (consisting of Steven Bird as an informal adviser, Bonnie Dorr, Min-Yen Kan as ACL Anthology Editor, Dragomir Radev as chair, Stuart Shieber, Mark Steedman and Simone Teufel) to find and replace the current Editor by end of 2018. This Board is currently working on the matter.

	~~# Min-Yen Kan, current~~ Anthology Editor, ~~will relinquish editorship of the ACL Anthology in 2018. It is time to begin searching for qualified individuals to fulfil this important~~, ~~voluntary role to ensure that service to the community will not be interrupted~~, ~~while enjoying the benefits of having new leadership rejuvenate the Anthology with new ideas. The ASC concurs that this process needs~~ to ~~start,~~ and ~~recommends that the ACL Exec come up with a selection process, adding that the existing Nominating Committee could be asked to help with the process, but that the NC should be enlarged to add at least~~ the current ~~Anthology~~ Editor~~, and/or a member that could advise on the technical expertise~~ of ~~candidates~~. ~~The ASC additionally recommends that the NC:~~
	~~#* Insist that prospective Editors have access to volunteers (i.e., students) who have the technical ability to help with~~ the ~~infrastructural maintenance work.~~
	~~#* Conduct an open call for (self-) nominations that might dovetail with a call for general volunteers~~.

	'''Mailing List'''. The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 895 members (up from 763 from a year ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.		'''Mailing List'''. The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 895 members (up from 763 from a year ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.

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	The Anthology now contains over 44,600 (up from 42,100 papers in the last report in Q3). As many may know there are two versions of the Anthology, a legacy version at http://www.aclweb.org/anthology and a current one at http://aclanthology.info . Due to time constraints by the Editor, and the fact that we have both Anthologies for over 2 years as a transition period, we have stopped maintaining the legacy site. Work still remains to port all of the accepted functionality over to the current site (i.e., handling errata, full text search, redirections from the legacy site to the current one, and archiving access statistics among others). However, the development of new features is heavily constrained by the time bandwidth of the Editor, as the popularity of NLP/CL publications continues to grow, and hence its workload for all tasks routine and exceptional. The current Anthology is physically hosted at Universität des Saarlands, in a well-resourced virtual machine, but may need to find a new home soon due to volunteers ending their term with the hosting group.		The Anthology now contains over 44,600 (up from 42,100 papers in the last report in Q3). As many may know there are two versions of the Anthology, a legacy version at http://www.aclweb.org/anthology and a current one at http://aclanthology.info . Due to time constraints by the Editor, and the fact that we have both Anthologies for over 2 years as a transition period, we have stopped maintaining the legacy site. Work still remains to port all of the accepted functionality over to the current site (i.e., handling errata, full text search, redirections from the legacy site to the current one, and archiving access statistics among others). However, the development of new features is heavily constrained by the time bandwidth of the Editor, as the popularity of NLP/CL publications continues to grow, and hence its workload for all tasks routine and exceptional. The current Anthology is physically hosted at Universität des Saarlands, in a well-resourced virtual machine, but may need to find a new home soon due to volunteers ending their term with the hosting group.

			'''Anthology Steering Committee'''. The ASC currently consists of Jing-Shin Chang, Min-Yen Kan and Paola Merlo. The ASC met virtually on 14 Jul 2016. The ASC also discussed supplementary materials in the ACL Anthology and other authority networks (for papers, authors, etc.) that may be being used, proposed by other institutions (e.g., MIT Press for CL journal), and revisions and better placement of the contributor's instructions for new material Anthology ingestion. Due to Min-Yen's involvement in ACL 2017, the ASC has yet to meet for its next meeting but may be able to do so physically soon.

			# Min-Yen Kan, current Anthology Editor, will relinquish editorship of the ACL Anthology in 2018. It is time to begin searching for qualified individuals to fulfil this important, voluntary role to ensure that service to the community will not be interrupted, while enjoying the benefits of having new leadership rejuvenate the Anthology with new ideas. The ASC concurs that this process needs to start, and recommends that the ACL Exec come up with a selection process, adding that the existing Nominating Committee could be asked to help with the process, but that the NC should be enlarged to add at least the current Anthology Editor, and/or a member that could advise on the technical expertise of candidates. The ASC additionally recommends that the NC:
			#* Insist that prospective Editors have access to volunteers (i.e., students) who have the technical ability to help with the infrastructural maintenance work.
			#* Conduct an open call for (self-) nominations that might dovetail with a call for general volunteers.

	'''Mailing List'''. The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 895 members (up from 763 from a year ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.		'''Mailing List'''. The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 895 members (up from 763 from a year ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.
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	'''Work Queue'''. The current state of ingestion and development of the ACL Anthology is publicly available on the ACL Anthology's footer. New this report is the incorporating of historical ingestion logs as well. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/166W-eIJX2rzCACbjpQYOaruJda7bTZrY7MBw_oa7B2E/pubhtml		'''Work Queue'''. The current state of ingestion and development of the ACL Anthology is publicly available on the ACL Anthology's footer. New this report is the incorporating of historical ingestion logs as well. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/166W-eIJX2rzCACbjpQYOaruJda7bTZrY7MBw_oa7B2E/pubhtml

	'''Anthology Steering Committee'''. The ASC currently consists of Jing-Shin Chang, Min-Yen Kan and Paola Merlo. The ASC met virtually on 14 Jul 2016. The ASC also discussed supplementary materials in the ACL Anthology and other authority networks (for papers, authors, etc.) that may be being used, proposed by other institutions (e.g., MIT Press for CL journal), and revisions and better placement of the contributor's instructions for new material Anthology ingestion. Due to Min-Yen's involvement in ACL 2017, the ASC has yet to meet for its next meeting but may be able to do so physically soon.

	== Accomplishments for this year ==		== Accomplishments for this year ==
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	# Negotiating with Google Scholar to index aclanthology.info. While done, this is a temporary fix until the Anthology can find a home within www.aclweb.org as required by Google Scholar.		# Negotiating with Google Scholar to index aclanthology.info. While done, this is a temporary fix until the Anthology can find a home within www.aclweb.org as required by Google Scholar.
	# End of lifetime support for the legacy Anthology		# End of lifetime support for the legacy Anthology
	# Containerization of the Anthology. ''We need volunteers to create a network of mirrors to the Anthology''		# Containerization of the Anthology. '''We need volunteers to create a network of mirrors to the Anthology'''
	# Publication of a short paper in the NLP-OSS workshop with volunteer group		# Publication of a short paper in the NLP-OSS workshop with volunteer group
	# Moving the Anthology (-PDFs) from the NUS underresourced Virtual Machine to Universität des Saarlands		# Moving the Anthology (-PDFs) from the NUS underresourced Virtual Machine to Universität des Saarlands
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	== Plans, Prioritized ==		== Plans, Prioritized ==


	# Min-Yen Kan, current Anthology Editor, will relinquish editorship of the ACL Anthology in 2018. It is time to begin searching for qualified individuals to fulfil this important, voluntary role to ensure that service to the community will not be interrupted, while enjoying the benefits of having new leadership rejuvenate the Anthology with new ideas. The ASC concurs that this process needs to start, and recommends that the ACL Exec come up with a selection process, adding that the existing Nominating Committee could be asked to help with the process, but that the NC should be enlarged to add at least the current Anthology Editor, and/or a member that could advise on the technical expertise of candidates. The ASC additionally recommends that the NC:
	~~#* Insist that prospective Editors have access to volunteers (i.e., students) who have the technical ability to help with the infrastructural maintenance work.~~
	~~#* Conduct an open call for (self-) nominations that might dovetail with a call for general volunteers.~~
	# We are capturing abstracts (albeit with some noise) from START, but have yet to successfully integrate this into the ACL Anthology's index.		# We are capturing abstracts (albeit with some noise) from START, but have yet to successfully integrate this into the ACL Anthology's index.
	# For long-term preservation, to create a XML representation of all of the metadata used to create the Anthology. This is similar in nature to the XML dump of DBLP or Wikipedia. It allows a clean separation of the underlying data in the Anthology from the code used to present it.		# For long-term preservation, to create a XML representation of all of the metadata used to create the Anthology. This is similar in nature to the XML dump of DBLP or Wikipedia. It allows a clean separation of the underlying data in the Anthology from the code used to present it.

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	== Accomplishments for this year ==		== Accomplishments for this year ==

			# Negotiating with Google Scholar to index aclanthology.info. While done, this is a temporary fix until the Anthology can find a home within www.aclweb.org as required by Google Scholar.
	# End of lifetime support for the legacy Anthology		# End of lifetime support for the legacy Anthology
	# Containerization of the Anthology		# Containerization of the Anthology. ''We need volunteers to create a network of mirrors to the Anthology''
	# Publication of a short paper in the NLP-OSS workshop with volunteer group		# Publication of a short paper in the NLP-OSS workshop with volunteer group
	# Moving the Anthology (-PDFs) from the NUS underresourced Virtual Machine to Universität des Saarlands		# Moving the Anthology (-PDFs) from the NUS underresourced Virtual Machine to Universität des Saarlands
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	== Plans, Prioritized ==		== Plans, Prioritized ==

	# While the new Anthology is live, it lives on a university virtual machine in Singapore, and does not scale well to provide adequate bandwidth when faced with the full access from the ACL membership and general public. We have investigated which service to take our work towards as it likely requires a virtual private server (VPS) account. We have also investigated its cost, as we need to install certain software and libraries that usually requires root privileges. We solicited and received volunteers to help with this process. Martin Villaba and Christoph Teichmann of Saarland have duplicated a set up of the Anthology and have gotten a more, high-powered virtual machine to serve the Anthology. The ACL Anthology is now containerized, and in Docker. We are still working on this as the ACL 2017 conference is happening. We have on our agenda to set up a mirroring system to allow several worldwide mirrors to serve the Anthology materials and '''volunteers to help with provisioning a local Anthology copy are welcomed to contact us'''

	~~# A large current problem with the ACL Anthology is with indexing (specifically Google Scholar). We have known about the problem for a while and it is being addressed along with the virtual machine.~~
	# Min-Yen Kan, current Anthology Editor, will relinquish editorship of the ACL Anthology in 2018. It is time to begin searching for qualified individuals to fulfil this important, voluntary role to ensure that service to the community will not be interrupted, while enjoying the benefits of having new leadership rejuvenate the Anthology with new ideas. The ASC concurs that this process needs to start, and recommends that the ACL Exec come up with a selection process, adding that the existing Nominating Committee could be asked to help with the process, but that the NC should be enlarged to add at least the current Anthology Editor, and/or a member that could advise on the technical expertise of candidates. The ASC additionally recommends that the NC:		# Min-Yen Kan, current Anthology Editor, will relinquish editorship of the ACL Anthology in 2018. It is time to begin searching for qualified individuals to fulfil this important, voluntary role to ensure that service to the community will not be interrupted, while enjoying the benefits of having new leadership rejuvenate the Anthology with new ideas. The ASC concurs that this process needs to start, and recommends that the ACL Exec come up with a selection process, adding that the existing Nominating Committee could be asked to help with the process, but that the NC should be enlarged to add at least the current Anthology Editor, and/or a member that could advise on the technical expertise of candidates. The ASC additionally recommends that the NC:
	#* Insist that prospective Editors have access to volunteers (i.e., students) who have the technical ability to help with the infrastructural maintenance work.		#* Insist that prospective Editors have access to volunteers (i.e., students) who have the technical ability to help with the infrastructural maintenance work.

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	~~This is a preliminary report -- needs to be edited for current information.~~

	The ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in computational linguistics, sponsored by the CL community, and freely available to all. As of 2016, we employ a Creative Commons Attribution license for materials published by ACL. This makes our content usable by the general public with attribution to the ACL (although it is not mandatory for any user to inform us of their use of our materials). Dual licensing for a fee is presumably possible (although not exercised currently).		The ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in computational linguistics, sponsored by the CL community, and freely available to all. As of 2016, we employ a Creative Commons Attribution license for materials published by ACL. This makes our content usable by the general public with attribution to the ACL (although it is not mandatory for any user to inform us of their use of our materials). Dual licensing for a fee is presumably possible (although not exercised currently).

	The Anthology now contains over 44,600 (up from 42,100 papers in the last report in Q3). As many may know there are two versions of the Anthology, a legacy version at http://www.aclweb.org/anthology and a current one at http://aclanthology.info . Due to time constraints by the Editor, and the fact that we have both Anthologies for over 2 years as a transition period, we have stopped maintaining the legacy site. Work still remains to port all of the accepted functionality over to the current site (i.e., handling errata, full text search, among others). However, the development of new features is heavily constrained by the time bandwidth of the Editor, as the popularity of NLP/CL publications continues to grow, and hence its workload for all tasks routine and exceptional. The current Anthology is physically hosted at Universität des Saarlands, in a well-resourced virtual machine, but may need to find a new home soon due to volunteers ending their term with the hosting group.		The Anthology now contains over 44,600 (up from 42,100 papers in the last report in Q3). As many may know there are two versions of the Anthology, a legacy version at http://www.aclweb.org/anthology and a current one at http://aclanthology.info . Due to time constraints by the Editor, and the fact that we have both Anthologies for over 2 years as a transition period, we have stopped maintaining the legacy site. Work still remains to port all of the accepted functionality over to the current site (i.e., handling errata, full text search, redirections from the legacy site to the current one, and archiving access statistics among others). However, the development of new features is heavily constrained by the time bandwidth of the Editor, as the popularity of NLP/CL publications continues to grow, and hence its workload for all tasks routine and exceptional. The current Anthology is physically hosted at Universität des Saarlands, in a well-resourced virtual machine, but may need to find a new home soon due to volunteers ending their term with the hosting group.

	'''Mailing List'''. The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 895 members (up from 763 from a year ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.		'''Mailing List'''. The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 895 members (up from 763 from a year ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.
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	'''Anthology Steering Committee'''. The ASC currently consists of Jing-Shin Chang, Min-Yen Kan and Paola Merlo. The ASC met virtually on 14 Jul 2016. The ASC also discussed supplementary materials in the ACL Anthology and other authority networks (for papers, authors, etc.) that may be being used, proposed by other institutions (e.g., MIT Press for CL journal), and revisions and better placement of the contributor's instructions for new material Anthology ingestion. Due to Min-Yen's involvement in ACL 2017, the ASC has yet to meet for its next meeting but may be able to do so physically soon.		'''Anthology Steering Committee'''. The ASC currently consists of Jing-Shin Chang, Min-Yen Kan and Paola Merlo. The ASC met virtually on 14 Jul 2016. The ASC also discussed supplementary materials in the ACL Anthology and other authority networks (for papers, authors, etc.) that may be being used, proposed by other institutions (e.g., MIT Press for CL journal), and revisions and better placement of the contributor's instructions for new material Anthology ingestion. Due to Min-Yen's involvement in ACL 2017, the ASC has yet to meet for its next meeting but may be able to do so physically soon.

			== Accomplishments for this year ==

			# End of lifetime support for the legacy Anthology
			# Containerization of the Anthology
			# Publication of a short paper in the NLP-OSS workshop with volunteer group
			# Moving the Anthology (-PDFs) from the NUS underresourced Virtual Machine to Universität des Saarlands
			# Massive CL/NLP BibTeX file. We recreate a single BibTeX file for all Anthology materials after a period of ingestions.
			# Incorporating of historical ingestion logs in the public Google Doc
			# Refinement of outstanding issues into the GitHub open source codebase
			# Migration the GitHub codebase to the central ACL GitHub account

	== Plans, Prioritized ==		== Plans, Prioritized ==

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	#* Insist that prospective Editors have access to volunteers (i.e., students) who have the technical ability to help with the infrastructural maintenance work.		#* Insist that prospective Editors have access to volunteers (i.e., students) who have the technical ability to help with the infrastructural maintenance work.
	#* Conduct an open call for (self-) nominations that might dovetail with a call for general volunteers.		#* Conduct an open call for (self-) nominations that might dovetail with a call for general volunteers.
	# A previous discussion (with Ken Church) proposed that we create a single BibTeX file for all Anthology materials. The beta Anthology can generate such information fairly easily with its database backing; we plan to have this file available during the ACL 2016 conference.
	# We are capturing abstracts (albeit with some noise) from START, but have yet to successfully integrate this into the ACL Anthology's index.		# We are capturing abstracts (albeit with some noise) from START, but have yet to successfully integrate this into the ACL Anthology's index.
	# For long-term preservation, to create a XML representation of all of the metadata used to create the Anthology. This is similar in nature to the XML dump of DBLP or Wikipedia. It allows a clean separation of the underlying data in the Anthology from the code used to present it.		# For long-term preservation, to create a XML representation of all of the metadata used to create the Anthology. This is similar in nature to the XML dump of DBLP or Wikipedia. It allows a clean separation of the underlying data in the Anthology from the code used to present it.

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	The ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in computational linguistics, sponsored by the CL community, and freely available to all. As of 2016, we employ a Creative Commons Attribution license for materials published by ACL. This makes our content usable by the general public with attribution to the ACL (although it is not mandatory for any user to inform us of their use of our materials). Dual licensing for a fee is presumably possible (although not exercised currently).		The ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in computational linguistics, sponsored by the CL community, and freely available to all. As of 2016, we employ a Creative Commons Attribution license for materials published by ACL. This makes our content usable by the general public with attribution to the ACL (although it is not mandatory for any user to inform us of their use of our materials). Dual licensing for a fee is presumably possible (although not exercised currently).

	The Anthology now contains over 42,~~100~~ (up from 37,~~000~~ papers in the last report in Q3) ~~The new ACL~~ Anthology ~~is now active~~ and ~~will be switched~~ to the ~~primary Anthology~~ site ~~around ACL this year~~, ~~once production issues (detailed below~~, ~~are fixed and the solutions judged maintainable~~). However, ~~we know a portion~~ of ~~our membership will want to still use~~ the ~~older version~~, ~~so we are going to maintain both sites at least until~~ the ~~end~~ of ~~2017~~. ~~[[http://aclanthology.info/ Current version]] [[http://www~~.~~aclweb.org/anthology/ Legacy version]]~~		The Anthology now contains over 44,600 (up from 42,100 papers in the last report in Q3). As many may know there are two versions of the Anthology, a legacy version at http://www.aclweb.org/anthology and a current one at http://aclanthology.info . Due to time constraints by the Editor, and the fact that we have both Anthologies for over 2 years as a transition period, we have stopped maintaining the legacy site. Work still remains to port all of the accepted functionality over to the current site (i.e., handling errata, full text search, among others). However, the development of new features is heavily constrained by the time bandwidth of the Editor, as the popularity of NLP/CL publications continues to grow, and hence its workload for all tasks routine and exceptional. The current Anthology is physically hosted at Universität des Saarlands, in a well-resourced virtual machine, but may need to find a new home soon due to volunteers ending their term with the hosting group.

	'''Mailing List'''. The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of ~~763~~ members (up from ~~634~~ from a year ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.		'''Mailing List'''. The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 895 members (up from 763 from a year ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.

	'''Auxiliary Ingestion'''. The Anthology now has ingestion workflows for software, datasets, general attachments, slides and posters that are hosted with the ACL Anthology. ~~Hyperlinks to~~ videos are ~~also saved; typically proceedings chairs~~, ~~will ask videos to be saved to~~ the ~~third party techtalks.tv site~~, ~~which has thus far, been happy to absorb ACL content~~.		'''Auxiliary Ingestion'''. The Anthology now has ingestion workflows for software, datasets, general attachments, slides and posters that are hosted with the ACL Anthology. One important problem is with keeping certain media updated in the publication workflows for conferences -- supplemental materials, videos and posters are ingestable and have processes within the Anthology Editor's workflows, but these seem less well formed for individual conferences. We recommend that the Conference chair come up with good interfacing between authors, vendors and the Anthology.

	'''Digital Object Identifiers'''. We have assigned DOIs to all ACL materials in 2015 and have assigned ones to all current material, minus TACL. With our current practice of assigning DOIs to all materials, our costs are likely to escalate to at least US$ 3K as we digitally publish at least this amount of scholarly articles.		'''Digital Object Identifiers'''. We have assigned DOIs to all ACL materials in 2015 and have assigned ones to all current material, minus TACL. With our current practice of assigning DOIs to all materials, our costs are likely to escalate to at least US$ 3K as we digitally publish at least this amount of scholarly articles.

	'''ACL Anthology Reference Corpus version 2 (ACL ARC 2)'''. We have ~~released a newer updated version of~~ the ~~ACL Anthology Reference Corpus~~, ~~which standardizes a release~~ of ~~the scholarly articles in the Anthology, alongside~~ a ~~machine readable processed version using open-source software derived from Min-Yen Kan's research group~~. ~~The release was made in 1 March 2016, and distribution~~ is ~~currently solely by the ACL ARC website (http://acl-arc.comp.nus.edu.sg). Distribution by LDC is being sought for~~ a ~~newer version 3, as re-distribution rights that conflict with~~ the ~~earlier CC licensing have been revisited with~~ the ~~help of LDC. Once Min's ACL 2017 work is finished we are likely to pursue this in addition~~ to the ~~handover~~ and ~~sourcing for a replacement editor~~.		'''ACL Anthology Reference Corpus version 3 (ACL ARC 3)'''. We have gotten blessings from the LDC, for distribution of a new reference corpus. This is a priority in the development of the Anthology as a scientific corpus itself but needs to be delayed until the current Editor can step down and concentrate on this development.

	'''Work Queue'''. The current state of ingestion and development of the ACL Anthology is publicly available on the ACL Anthology's footer. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/166W-eIJX2rzCACbjpQYOaruJda7bTZrY7MBw_oa7B2E/pubhtml		'''Work Queue'''. The current state of ingestion and development of the ACL Anthology is publicly available on the ACL Anthology's footer. New this report is the incorporating of historical ingestion logs as well. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/166W-eIJX2rzCACbjpQYOaruJda7bTZrY7MBw_oa7B2E/pubhtml

	'''Anthology Steering Committee'''. The ASC currently consists of Jing-Shin Chang, Min-Yen Kan and Paola Merlo. The ASC met virtually on 14 Jul 2016. The ASC also discussed supplementary materials in the ACL Anthology and other authority networks (for papers, authors, etc.) that may be being used, proposed by other institutions (e.g., MIT Press for CL journal), and revisions and better placement of the contributor's instructions for new material Anthology ingestion. Due to Min-Yen's involvement in ACL 2017, the ASC has yet to meet for its next meeting but may be able to do so physically soon.		'''Anthology Steering Committee'''. The ASC currently consists of Jing-Shin Chang, Min-Yen Kan and Paola Merlo. The ASC met virtually on 14 Jul 2016. The ASC also discussed supplementary materials in the ACL Anthology and other authority networks (for papers, authors, etc.) that may be being used, proposed by other institutions (e.g., MIT Press for CL journal), and revisions and better placement of the contributor's instructions for new material Anthology ingestion. Due to Min-Yen's involvement in ACL 2017, the ASC has yet to meet for its next meeting but may be able to do so physically soon.

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The ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in computational linguistics, sponsored by the CL community, and freely available to all. As of 2016, we employ a Creative Commons Attribution license for materials published by ACL. This makes our content usable by the general public with attribution to the ACL (although it is not mandatory for any user to inform us of their use of our materials). Dual licensing for a fee is presumably possible (although not exercised currently).

The Anthology now contains over 42,100 (up from 37,000 papers in the last report in Q3) The new ACL Anthology is now active and will be switched to the primary Anthology site around ACL this year, once production issues (detailed below, are fixed and the solutions judged maintainable). However, we know a portion of our membership will want to still use the older version, so we are going to maintain both sites at least until the end of 2017. [[http://aclanthology.info/ Current version]] [[http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/ Legacy version]]

'''Mailing List'''. The Anthology mailing list's (http://groups.google.com/group/acl-anthology) membership pool has grown, now consisting of 763 members (up from 634 from a year ago). This is an announcement-only list, where we notify members of newly listed released materials online.

'''Auxiliary Ingestion'''. The Anthology now has ingestion workflows for software, datasets, general attachments, slides and posters that are hosted with the ACL Anthology. Hyperlinks to videos are also saved; typically proceedings chairs, will ask videos to be saved to the third party techtalks.tv site, which has thus far, been happy to absorb ACL content.

'''Digital Object Identifiers'''. We have assigned DOIs to all ACL materials in 2015 and have assigned ones to all current material, minus TACL. With our current practice of assigning DOIs to all materials, our costs are likely to escalate to at least US$ 3K as we digitally publish at least this amount of scholarly articles.

'''ACL Anthology Reference Corpus version 2 (ACL ARC 2)'''. We have released a newer updated version of the ACL Anthology Reference Corpus, which standardizes a release of the scholarly articles in the Anthology, alongside a machine readable processed version using open-source software derived from Min-Yen Kan's research group. The release was made in 1 March 2016, and distribution is currently solely by the ACL ARC website (http://acl-arc.comp.nus.edu.sg). Distribution by LDC is being sought for a newer version 3, as re-distribution rights that conflict with the earlier CC licensing have been revisited with the help of LDC. Once Min's ACL 2017 work is finished we are likely to pursue this in addition to the handover and sourcing for a replacement editor.

'''Work Queue'''. The current state of ingestion and development of the ACL Anthology is publicly available on the ACL Anthology's footer. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/166W-eIJX2rzCACbjpQYOaruJda7bTZrY7MBw_oa7B2E/pubhtml

'''Anthology Steering Committee'''. The ASC currently consists of Jing-Shin Chang, Min-Yen Kan and Paola Merlo. The ASC met virtually on 14 Jul 2016. The ASC also discussed supplementary materials in the ACL Anthology and other authority networks (for papers, authors, etc.) that may be being used, proposed by other institutions (e.g., MIT Press for CL journal), and revisions and better placement of the contributor's instructions for new material Anthology ingestion. Due to Min-Yen's involvement in ACL 2017, the ASC has yet to meet for its next meeting but may be able to do so physically soon.

== Plans, Prioritized ==

# While the new Anthology is live, it lives on a university virtual machine in Singapore, and does not scale well to provide adequate bandwidth when faced with the full access from the ACL membership and general public. We have investigated which service to take our work towards as it likely requires a virtual private server (VPS) account. We have also investigated its cost, as we need to install certain software and libraries that usually requires root privileges. We solicited and received volunteers to help with this process. Martin Villaba and Christoph Teichmann of Saarland have duplicated a set up of the Anthology and have gotten a more, high-powered virtual machine to serve the Anthology. The ACL Anthology is now containerized, and in Docker. We are still working on this as the ACL 2017 conference is happening. We have on our agenda to set up a mirroring system to allow several worldwide mirrors to serve the Anthology materials and '''volunteers to help with provisioning a local Anthology copy are welcomed to contact us'''

# A large current problem with the ACL Anthology is with indexing (specifically Google Scholar). We have known about the problem for a while and it is being addressed along with the virtual machine.
# Min-Yen Kan, current Anthology Editor, will relinquish editorship of the ACL Anthology in 2018. It is time to begin searching for qualified individuals to fulfil this important, voluntary role to ensure that service to the community will not be interrupted, while enjoying the benefits of having new leadership rejuvenate the Anthology with new ideas. The ASC concurs that this process needs to start, and recommends that the ACL Exec come up with a selection process, adding that the existing Nominating Committee could be asked to help with the process, but that the NC should be enlarged to add at least the current Anthology Editor, and/or a member that could advise on the technical expertise of candidates. The ASC additionally recommends that the NC:
#* Insist that prospective Editors have access to volunteers (i.e., students) who have the technical ability to help with the infrastructural maintenance work.
#* Conduct an open call for (self-) nominations that might dovetail with a call for general volunteers.
# A previous discussion (with Ken Church) proposed that we create a single BibTeX file for all Anthology materials. The beta Anthology can generate such information fairly easily with its database backing; we plan to have this file available during the ACL 2016 conference.
# We are capturing abstracts (albeit with some noise) from START, but have yet to successfully integrate this into the ACL Anthology's index.
# For long-term preservation, to create a XML representation of all of the metadata used to create the Anthology. This is similar in nature to the XML dump of DBLP or Wikipedia. It allows a clean separation of the underlying data in the Anthology from the code used to present it.
# Collaboration with START (also may involve the Conference Officer's work) to integrate user accounts in their system. This would allow START to have authority records for authors such that new paper submissions might start with correct, canonical forms of author names. The ASC is aware of ORCIDs and other name authority systems that might also be useful in this process.
# Collaboration with ELRA to allow the categorization of papers against the LRE Map and ISLRNs.
# To allow third-party applications to automatically annotate articles with new metadata on existing papers via an API. Such an API is a production API, allowing third-parties to add auto-analyzed materials to the Anthology (e.g., auto-extracted keywords, summaries). This will raise the visibility of the Anthology as a object of study, complementing work on the ACL ARC.