Feedback on the new Anthology website

[mbollmann]

This thread is intended to collect all feedback, suggestions, bug reports, etc. for the new Anthology website in the static-rewrite branch.

(Edit: live demo here at http://aclweb.org/anthology)

If you do not have a GitHub account, you're also welcome to send me feedback via e-mail (marcel@bollmann.me) or Twitter (@mmbollmann)!

Known Issues

• The search functionality now uses Google Custom Search. We're still finetuning its settings and waiting for some pages to be indexed, so please don't report any weird search behaviour just yet.
• Author name variations (Authors being stored under multiple spellings #86) are an open problem that we plan to address before the site launch.

[akoehn]

I really like it, especially the speed!

There is a display:none span containing the text "bib" in the bibtex block inside the acl-paper-link-block block. When using a text browser, this leads to the text being BibTeXbib. That span should be removed.

As a minor comment: Could you specify the hardware requirements for building the anthology a bit? How much time & memory does building take? "a considerable amount of memory" could be 8GB or 512, depending on whom you ask :-)

[davidweichiang]

It looks great! On Safari, when you click on on pdf/bib link and then click the browser's back button, the little callout ("Open PDF" or "Export BibTeX") remains on.

[danielgildea]

awesome!!!!!!!!!

[texttheater]

I think it would look better if the header had the same width as the content. I.e., the ACL logo would move to the left and the search box to the right, in order to align with the content.

[desilinguist]

Looks awesome! Great work! 👏

[mjpost]

What's the reason for inserting newlines in the bib field values? (for example, in booktitle here, and titles elsewhere).

[stevenbedrick]

Disclaimer: This is about search, but is not about weird search behavior as such. Is Google Custom Search the long-term search solution for the new version of the Anthology? It is inherently waaaaay less functional than the existing search system on the current Anthology- for example, the current search page has really great result faceting, etc.

[stevenbedrick]

And I just saw #165 - glad to see that something more flexible is on the roadmap/radar. In the meantime, we could also link to the DFKI "ACL Anthology Searchbench".

[aryamccarthy]

On mobile, the magnifying glass of the search bar gets forced to the next row for me.

[aryamccarthy]

Is the BibTeX generation handling special characters properly?

This entry has weird quotation marks in the abstract. http://aclweb.org/anthology/papers/C/C18/C18-1137.bib
This one has weird things going on in the title field. http://aclweb.org/anthology/papers/K/K18/K18-3001.bib

[danielhers]

When there is just one paper in a conference, the noun after the number should be singular "paper" and not "papers".
Example: Proceedings of the Pilot SENSEVAL 1 papers in http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/venues/semeval/

[rahular]

Awesome work! One small issue I saw is that when I am browsing through papers in pages like this, there is no way for me to scroll back to the top instantly. The up button which is present at the beginning of the page could be floating around a corner.