Integrating User-Generated Content in the ACL Anthology

Computing Research Repository, 1999

This paper describes the Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts, the only Internet-accessible collection of digital documents allowing the user to 1) dynamically create customized, typographically readable documents on demand, 2) search the content of one or more documents from the collection simultaneously, 3) create sets of documents from the collection for review and annotation, and 4) publish these sets of annotated documents in turn fostering a sense of community around the Catalogue. More than a just a collection of links that will break over time, Alex is an archive of electronic texts providing unprecedented access to its content and features allowing it to meet the needs of a wide variety of users and settings. Furthermore, the process of maintaining the Catalogue is streamlined with tools for automatic acquisition and cataloging making it possible to sustain the service with a minimum of personnel.

Proceedings of Workshop for NLP Open Source Software (NLP-OSS)

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 longterm 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.

Inviting and Honoring User-contributed Content, 2021

Galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAMs) and users deploy and engage with many emergent technologies, platforms, projects, and approaches to gather user-contributed content (UCC) related to GLAM collections, such as crowdsourcing, linked data, and tools and platforms for digital scholarship. However, actually integrating UCC with long-term preservation, search, and discovery systems lags behind. Though there are many challenges to integrating UCC, the demonstrable benefits of integration are significant and can promote broader collections use and impact.

2012

The ACL 2012 Contributed Task is a community effort aiming to provide the full ACL Anthology as a high-quality corpus with rich markup, following the TEI P5 guidelinesa new resource dubbed the ACL Anthology Corpus (AAC). The goal of the task is threefold: (a) to provide a shared resource for experimentation on scientific text; (b) to serve as a basis for advanced search over the ACL Anthology, based on textual content and citations; and, by combining the aforementioned goals, (c) to present a showcase of the benefits of natural language processing to a broader audience. The Contributed Task extends the current Anthology Reference Corpus (ARC) both in size, quality, and by aiming to provide tools that allow the corpus to be automatically extended with new content-be they scanned or born-digital.

2012

This article promotes a theoretical evolution in the conceptualisation and operation of digital literary archives via NewRadial, a prototype archive application that models the following distinction: Whereas a digital edition continues to function as a primary source, the root of a secondary discourse field much like its print-based predecessor, the digital archive should be reconceived as a broader, active, dynamic public record, an information commons that substantiates a foundational collection of primary texts with a continuous aggregation of critical contexts and conversations that grow from that foundation.

2010

Prior to the computational-driven revolution in science, research papers provided the pri- mary mechanism for sharing novel methods and data. Papers described experiments involving small amount of data, derivations on that data, and associated methods and algorithms. Readers reproduced the results by repeating the physical experiment, performing hand calculation, and/or logical argument. The scientific method in this decade has become decisively computational, involving large quantities of data, complex data manipulation tasks, and large, and often distributed, software stacks. The research paper, in its current text form, is only able to summarize the associated data and computation rather than reproduce it computationally. While papers corroborate descriptions through indirect means, such as by building companion websites that share data and software packages, these external websites continue to remain disconnected from the content within the paper, making it difficult to verify claims and reproduce results. There is an critical need for systems that minimize this disconnect. We describe Science Object Linking and Embedding (SOLE), a framework for creating descriptive and interactive publications by linking them with associated science objects, such as source codes, datasets, annotations, workflows, re-playable packages, and virtual machine images. SOLE provides a suite of tools that assist the author to create and host science objects that can then be linked with research papers for the purpose of assessment, repeatability, and verification of research. The framework also creates a linkable representation of the science object with the publication and manages a bibliography-like specification of science objects. In this chapter, we introduce SOLE, and describe its use for augmenting the content of computation-based scientific publications. We present examples from climate science, chemistry, biology, and computer science.

Research and scholarly communication is increasingly seen in the light of open science, making research processes and results more accessible and collaborative. This brings with it the chance to better connect research and society by introducing new avenues for engagement with citizens. This book presents the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (Elpub), held in Valetta, Malta, in September 2015. This year’s conference explores the interplay of two dimensions of electronic publishing – the ever growing volume of digital collections and the improved understanding of the widest user group, citizens. This exciting theme encompasses human, cultural, economic, social, technological, legal, policy-related, commercial, and other relevant aspects. Echoing the conference agenda, the book covers a wide range of topics, including engagement with citizens and professionals, enhanced publishing and new paradigms, discovery and digital libraries, open access and open science, as well as the use and reuse of data. Addressing the most recent developments in these areas, the book will be of interest to practitioners, researchers and students in information science, as well as users of electronic publishing.

The International Conference on Electronic Publishing (Elpub) is just one year away from its 20th anniversary. Elpub 2015, the 19th edition of the conference, will continue its tradition of bringing together a wide range of stakeholders: academics, publishers, lecturers, librarians, students, developers, entrepreneurs, and users interested in issues regarding electronic publishing in diverse contexts. Three distinguishing features of this series of conferences are: a broad scope of topics creating a unique atmosphere of active exchange and learning on various aspects of electronic publishing; the combination of general and technical tracks. Lastly, a streamlined submission, revision and proceedings publication process guarantees the inclusion of current and cutting edge research in the programme. Twenty years is a commendable lifespan for a conference in such a volatile area. Elpub has contributed to the ever-changing environment every year by focusing on a special theme. Elpub 2015 will explore the interplay of two dimensions of electronic publishing-the ever growing volume of digital collections, and the improved understanding of the widest user group: that of citizens. This exciting theme encompasses human, cultural, economic, social, technological, legal, policy-related, commercial, and other relevant aspects. Are we currently facing the dawn of the age of citizen science? Not quite yet. However, open science is clearly on the horizon-not least through both the dedication of a growing group of researchers and the incentives set out by the European Commission and other research funders worldwide. The rationale for this approach is manifold: from promoting free access to all kinds of outputs resulting from publicly-funded research; a clear need to address data management, sharing and reuse; and open einfrastructures for research to new forms of collaboration, publishing and user engagement. All this sets the foundations for a much wider interaction of researchers with their own community as well as professionals, industry representatives and citizens. Citizen engagement will be by nature diverse. For example, communication via social media, or joint cultural heritage projects which explore the participation of citizens, e.g. patients and carers, in the effort to create better ways to discover, enrich and select information. The conference will present a range of results in this area, and explores opportunities for participation in old and new publishing paradigms. The conference theme will be introduced by three inspiring keynotes: The main program on 1-2 September 2015 features Prof. Gowan Dawson (Leicester University, UK) who will deliver a keynote on "Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries". Prof. Gail Feigenbaum (Getty Research, USA) will explore "Electronic Publication: Intended and Unintended Consequences". Finally, a special intervention within the conference panel session will be offered by two local speakers from the publishing industry in Malta, Donald Tabone and Adrian Hillman. Similar to previous conferences, Elpub offers a combination of themed sessions and a poster session. In addition, the discerning participants have a chance to follow satellite events focusing on topics which enjoy a great interest in the professional community.