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	ACL continues to spend a lot of money on videos, which are not always turned over and ingested into the Anthology. It requires a lot of effort post-conference to chase down organizers and convince video providers to upload their videos and produce the mapping file that we can use for ingestion. For example, for 2019:		ACL continues to spend a lot of money on videos, which are not always turned over and ingested into the Anthology. It requires a lot of effort post-conference to chase down organizers and convince video providers to upload their videos and produce the mapping file that we can use for ingestion. For example, for 2019:

	* [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/events/naacl-2019/ NAACL] ~~Not~~ ingested		* [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/events/naacl-2019/ NAACL] Uploaded to Vimeo; not ingested
	* [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/events/acl-2019/ ACL] Fully ingested, thanks to post-conference help from Lluis Marquez, David Traum, and Simonetta Montemagni, Maria Cristina Schiavone, and the folks at [http://studiovisio.it Studio Visio].		* [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/events/acl-2019/ ACL] Fully ingested, thanks to post-conference help from Lluis Marquez, David Traum, and Simonetta Montemagni, Maria Cristina Schiavone, and the folks at [http://studiovisio.it Studio Visio].
	* [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/events/emnlp-2019/ EMNLP]: ~~Not ingested (though contact established)~~		* [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/events/emnlp-2019/ EMNLP]: Uploading in process; in active communication

	It is a ton of work to track this down and it gets pushed aside. Moving forward, I have written [https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/wiki/Contract-Guidelines-for-Recording-Talks a contract] that should be used before hiring companies so that the upload and delivery are part of the contract. ACL 2020 is on top of this.		It is a ton of work to track this down and it gets pushed aside. Moving forward, I have written [https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/wiki/Contract-Guidelines-for-Recording-Talks a contract] that should be used before hiring companies so that the upload and delivery are part of the contract. ACL 2020 is on top of this.

			== Volunteers ==

			We have an active volunteer staff of around six or seven people, committing at various levels. I have a small proposal for a token of appreciation for committed volunteers for discussion.

	== Hiring an Assistant ==		== Hiring an Assistant ==

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New page

== New ID format ==

Starting this year, to enable growth, we will move to a new ID format for Anthology articles. We will replace the DOS-inspired ###-#### format (e.g., P19-1017) with a more explicit format of the form {year}.{name}-{volume}.{#} (e.g., 2020.acl-long.17). This new format will solve a number of problems we are facing:

* We were running out of conference codes, with everything piled under "W" (which originally meant "workshop" but had been overloaded to also include most non-ACL events)
* We could only have 99 non-ACL events, which we over went last year
* Workshops could only have 99 papers, which [http://www.statmt.org WMT] (which is also no longer a workshop) broke in 2018, leading to unnatural volume breaks

== Videos ==

ACL continues to spend a lot of money on videos, which are not always turned over and ingested into the Anthology. It requires a lot of effort post-conference to chase down organizers and convince video providers to upload their videos and produce the mapping file that we can use for ingestion. For example, for 2019:

* [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/events/naacl-2019/ NAACL] Not ingested
* [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/events/acl-2019/ ACL] Fully ingested, thanks to post-conference help from Lluis Marquez, David Traum, and Simonetta Montemagni, Maria Cristina Schiavone, and the folks at [http://studiovisio.it Studio Visio].
* [https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/events/emnlp-2019/ EMNLP]: Not ingested (though contact established)

It is a ton of work to track this down and it gets pushed aside. Moving forward, I have written [https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/wiki/Contract-Guidelines-for-Recording-Talks a contract] that should be used before hiring companies so that the upload and delivery are part of the contract. ACL 2020 is on top of this.

== Hiring an Assistant ==

Thank you for permission to hire an assistant. I will be advertising for this soon. This should help with things like videos etc.

== The catalog ==

=== Backfilling ===

We have been working on identifying papers missing from the Anthology. Two of note are:

* [https://github.com/acl-org/acl-anthology/issues/355 IWPT] Headed up by Kilian Gebhardt, we have hired out the scanning of years 1991 to 2000, and are now in the process of manually entering metadata.
* [http://www.mt-archive.info MT Archive] With funding provided by [http://www.eamt.org/iamt.php IAMT], I have hired [https://cl.lingfil.uu.se/~marie/ Marie Dubremetz] to convert a large back-catalog of MT papers and ingest them into the Anthology.
* [http://csli-lilt.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/LiLT/index LiLT journal] Via a request from Martha Palmer, we will soon host LiLT (Linguistic Issues in Language Technology), previously hosted at Stanford and edited by Annie Zaenen.

Both should be done in the coming months.

=== Looking forward ===

We continue to receive requests to host proceedings. In general I accept them if they look to be of good quality, can be attested by senior folks in our area, and are at least marginally related to NLP or CL. In this coming year, we will be adding:

* [http://www.sigcnl.org/cnl2020.html CNL 2020]: Seventh International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2020)

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