Publication
The ACL Anthology Searchbench
Ulrich Schäfer; Bernd Kiefer; Christian Spurk; Jörg Steffen; Rui Wang
In: Proceedings of the ACL 2011 System Demonstrations. Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL-HLT-2011), June 19-24, Portland, Oregon, USA, Pages 7-13, ISBN 978-1-932432-90-9, Association for Computational Linguistics, 6/2011.
Abstract
We describe a novel application for structured search in scientific
digital libraries. The ACL Anthology Searchbench is meant to
become a publicly available research tool to query the content of
the ACL Anthology. The application provides search in both its
bibliographic metadata and semantically analyzed full textual
content. By combining these two features, very efficient and
focused queries are possible. At the same time, the application
serves as a showcase for the recent progress in natural language
processing (NLP) research and language technology. The
system currently indexes the textual content of 7,500
anthology papers from 2002-2009 with predicate-argument-like
semantic structures. It also provides useful search filters based on
bibliographic metadata. It will be extended during spring to provide
the full anthology content and (later) enhanced functionality based
on further NLP techniques.