acl-org/acl-anthology

BibTeX cleaner

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#488 opened on Aug 2, 2019

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It would be great to have a pip tool (acl-cleaner?) that reads a bibtex file and replaces entries with canonical Anthology ones, perhaps with confirmation. It would keep the original cite key so that it wouldn't break the compile. The matching shouldn't be too hard, I wouldn't think—some kind of case-insensitive fuzzy match of the title, author list length, and author names.

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Research direction
Examine the Anthology data schema and existing BibTeX utilities. Implement fuzzy title matching using a library like fuzzywuzzy. Ensure original cite keys are preserved.
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python
Domain
clitooling
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PythonBibTeX
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65