Definition
Plain language
A free online library of published research papers in language and speech technology.
As stated in the literature
An open digital archive of computational-linguistics and NLP papers; one of the six bibliographic catalogs RefChecker queries to verify whether a cited work actually exists.
Why it matters: It gives researchers and automated checkers a reliable place to confirm whether a language-technology paper actually exists.
For example, if a paper cites a well-known machine-translation study, a verification tool can search the ACL Anthology to confirm that study was really published.
Heard on the show
“Stage two: check each reference against six big bibliographic catalogs — Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, CrossRef, DBLP, the ACL Anthology, and direct identifier lookups like DOIs and arXiv.”Episode 201 — One in Four NeurIPS Papers Cites a Reference That Doesn't Exist