Search via ... engines need to be integrated with current anthology

[knmnyn]

Suggested by Zeerak Waseem @zeerakw , @leondz and @evanmiltenburg @emilybender. See Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/evanmiltenburg/status/950367985889398790

[knmnyn]

@jeisner also upped this issue. Now upped to urgent.

Should enable the search bar to submit to Google site:aclweb.org as well as others.

[jeisner]

One option is to configure an instance of Google Custom Search at cse.google.com.

(I just tried it out by enabling it on my own papers page: https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~jason/papers/ )

[jeisner]

If I create an instance of Google Custom Search to do this, would you be willing to put that HTML onto the Anthology home page, at least for now? (Or accept a pull request if I modified the static HTML, which may be what you were suggesting in your email to me on 2018-06-27?)

It's a very quick solution with a very high payoff ...

(Only downside is that the search box would probably be associated with my personal Google account. But I'd post my settings here, and you could make your own search box whenever you wanted and swap mine out in favor of yours.)

[CTNLP]

If you were to submit a pull request with the required changes, then we should be able to get that up and running within a few days. If you just send us an HTML snipped then we could probably integrate that as well, but I cannot personally guarantee that it would be quick, since this would involve messing with the Ruby on Rails code, which I have no experience with.

[mjpost]

This has been implemented in the new version of the Anthology. Thanks, all.

[jeisner]

Awesome! I'd like to try it out, but the search box at the top of https://aclanthology.info/ doesn't seem to do full-text search yet. Am I looking in the wrong place?

(Sorry that I forgot to follow up on my suggestion in December with a pull request.)

[mjpost]

Yes, go to https://aclweb.org/anthology/. The other site is the old one and will be redirecting soon (#178).

[jeisner]

Ah, got it, thanks. Seems to work great. Has the old faceted search gone away entirely, then? Ideally it would be possible to submit a query like `author:"matt post" beam search` (and/or the user-friendly equivalent that uses a drop-down form to specify metadata field restrictions like author:). But that's a bit tricky: if Google's indexing can't be changed, then I guess the implementation would be to submit the query `beam search` to Google and then filter the results using the author metadata.

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[mbollmann]

if Google's indexing can't be changed, then I guess the implementation would be to submit the query beam search to Google and then filter the results using the author metadata.

I think that's only possible if we use Google's JSON API, so we can query and filter search results via our own custom JavaScript. Unfortunately, that costs $5/1000 queries.

There is a separate issue discussing the new search box btw: #165

[jeisner]

Thanks -- I'll move the conversation to #165.