acl-anthology-helper

To help search, filter, and download papers from 'acl anthology' (https://aclanthology.org/).

Main Features

• Retrieve papers from acl anthology.
  retrieve directly from website acl anthology.
  e.g. Retriever.acl(2021, ConfConsts.LONG)
  download all papers's info to local (MySQL database).
  e.g.
  db = AnthologyMySQL(cache_enable=True)
db.create_tables()
db.load_data() # load data and put into database
• Import ABuilder to support chain operations for MySQL.
  e.g.
  data = ABuilder().table('paper').where({"year": ["in", years_limit]}).where({"venue": ["in", venue_limit]}).query()
• Filter papers with by keyword.
  e.g. filtered = papers.filter('title', 'xxx') | papers.filter('abstract', 'xxx')
  e.g. filtered = papers.and_containing_filter(attr, [keyword1, keyword2])
• Download papers.
  e.g. downloader.multi_download(filtered, download_path)
• Local cache available.
• Log available.
• Statistics available (although I only count the total number of papers).

Get Started

• Firstly. MySQL is required. Mine is MySQL 8.
  Configurate your MySQL database and add a src/configuration/mysql_cfg.py file.
  The example of src/configuration/mysql_cfg.py is as follows:

class MySQLCFG(object):
    HOST = 'localhost'
    PORT = 3306
    USER = "root"
    PASSWORD = "xxx"
    DB = "xxx"

Meanwhile, create the corresponding database in your MySQL database.

- Secondly. If you want to use ABuilder.
You need to make a tasks/database.py with configurations of you MySQL.
You can refer to the homepage of ABuilder.
In the latest version, I made the tasks/database.py get info from the configuration. No need to make this file any more:

• Download and decompress the code, open a terminal and checkout to the root directory.
  run

pip install requirements.txt
cd tasks
python basic_task.py

By running this code, this basic_task will firstly download all papers within a certain time span from Acl Anthology to the local disk, and then search papers by input key words.

Note

1. Comments

I develop this project by Python 3.6, and it doesn't support python 2.

2023.6.14 The code is updated to support the lastest acl anthology pages. Current python version is 3.10 . 2023.7.2 Update the README.

2. A survey paper is written with this tool

@article{tang2022recent,
  title={Recent advances in neural text generation: A task-agnostic survey},
  author={Tang, Chen and Guerin, Frank and Li, Yucheng and Lin, Chenghua},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.03047},
  year={2022}
}

3. Others

homepage

There are many conferences and contents belonging to them.

Choose one, and we can see papers' list.