Search not looking into content of PDF files

[villalbamartin]

The current search does not explore the text of the papers themselves, but only their metadata. As it has been pointed out in issue #39, this is less than ideal.

The search functionality would be greatly enhanced if we could look into the content of the PDF files themselves. This is likely to be quite complicated.

I'm opening this issue as a feature proposal, in order to collect ideas.

[knmnyn]

The current best thing to do is try to index the abstracts, some of which are currently being exported into the ACL XML metadata per paper. I suggest doing some development along these lines after the basic problems of ensuring replicability are solved. Cheers, Min

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[mjpost]

This should be fixed when the static rewrite goes live, since Google and others will index and link pages on the same host. The static rewrite also adds the abstracts to the paper pages, which should further help.