This is the official ACLPUB package for *ACL conferences. Its primary role is to package up the PDF files, BibTeX files, and optional extra files into a format that can be ingested by the ACL Anthology. Documentation can found under docs/ and view on the web. The latest version can always be found on Github.

Softconf's STARTv2 system is the main system used for conference management within the ACL community. It includes extensive integration around the ACLPUB package. Information about how to use ACLPUB within START can be found here.

ACLPUB can also be run from the command line, which facilitates use with third-party conference management software.

Instructions for submitting proceedings to the Anthology can be found here. These instructions were simplified in March of 2020 to accommodate the Anthology's new ID format). For more complete information on the overall process, please see the Anthology's Information for Submitters.

The following branches have special import:

• The master branch is used for main development and contains the official stable release.
• The start branch reflects the current code being used in START. It is brought in sync with master at regular intervals.

• 2005: The ACLPUB package and documentation were built in by Jason Eisner and Philipp Koehn, based in part on scripts by David Yarowsky that had been used for several years previously.
• 2019: the code underwent substantial modernization and revision by David Chiang and Dan Gildea.
• 2020: revisions were put in place to work with the Anthology's new ID format by Matt Post.