ACL Anthology Reference Corpus (ACL ARC)

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This is the home page of the ACL Anthology Reference Corpus, a corpus of scholarly publications about Computational Linguistics. This corpus is a canonicalized subset of the ACL Anthology, up to February 2007, consisting of 10,921 articles. We hope this frozen corpus will be used for benchmarking applications for scholarly and bibliometric data processing.

Download the corpus

Version 20080325: This is the version described in the LREC paper that contains the canonical 10,921 computational linguistics papers as PDF and plain text files, with the associated metadata. (You can also email me to request a DVD copy of the corpus)
[ Complete tgz file from NUS ] [ Complete tgz file from Macquarie Univ. (courtesy Robert Dale) ] Warning, Huge! (4621149669 bytes, ~4.4 GB) Expect re-tries, use a client with resume capability
[ tgz file (without PDFs) ] (111080365 bytes, ~100MB)

Publications

Refereed:

Steven Bird, Robert Dale, Bonnie Dorr, Bryan Gibson, Mark Joseph, Min-Yen Kan, Dongwon Lee, Brett Powley, Dragomir Radev and Yee Fan Tan (2008) The ACL Anthology Reference Corpus: A Reference Dataset for Bibliographic Research in Computational Linguistics. In Proc. of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 08). Marrakesh, Morocco, May.
[ .pdf pre-print ] [ Slides (.htm) ]

Group Members

Min-Yen Kan - Project leader, National University of Singapore
Steven Bird, University of Melbourne
Robert Dale, Macquarie University
Bonnie Dorr, University of Maryland
Bryan Gibson, University of Michigan
Mark Joseph, University of Michigan
Dongwon Lee, Pennsylvania State University
Brett Powley, Macquarie University
Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan
Yee Fan Tan, National University of Singapore

Tools and Related Links

Here we list some related tools for bibliographic processing, and related sites for bibliographic research.

ACL Anthology Network: A parallel initiative at the University of Michigan to construct a social network graph of researchers in computational linguistics.
ACL Anthology: The current version of the ACL Anthology, from which the ACL ARC is derived from.
ParsCit: A tool to automatically perform reference string parsing.

Acknowledgments

Our efforts have been supported by the grassroots initiative call made by the ACL Exec at the ACL annual 2007 meeting in Prague. We would like to acknowledge the support of the ACL Exec in encouraging this form of collaboration.