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ACL-rlg: A Dataset for Reading List Generation About ACL-rlg is the largest dataset of expert-crafted reading lists, containing 85 reading lists manually extracted from tutorial papers submitted to ACL-related conferences between 2020 and 2024. Data was sourced from ACL Anthology and cross-referenced with Semantic Scholar, enabling the extraction of metadata for articles beyond the ACL collection. Content The following data fields are available :… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/taln-ls2n/ACL-rlg.

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ACL-rlg: A Dataset for Reading List Generation

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ACL-rlg is the largest dataset of expert-crafted reading lists, containing 85 reading lists manually extracted from tutorial papers submitted to ACL-related conferences between 2020 and 2024. Data was sourced from ACL Anthology and cross-referenced with Semantic Scholar, enabling the extraction of metadata for articles beyond the ACL collection.

Content

The following data fields are available :

**Field****Type****Description**
idstringUnique identifier of the tutorial paper in the ACL Anthology.
titlestringTitle of the tutorial paper.
abstractstringAbstract of the tutorial paper.
yearint64Year of publication.
urlstringACL Anthology link to the paper.
venuesstringName of the venues the tutorial paper is published in.
reading_listlist[object]Reading list provided by the authors of the paper. Each record includes: <br>• corpusid (int64): Semantic Scholar corpus ID. <br>• paperId (string): Semantic Scholar paper ID. <br>• title (string): Title of the referenced paper. <br>• abstract (string): Abstract of the referenced paper. <br>• authors (list[object]): Informations about referenced paper's authors. <br>• venue (string): Name of the venue the referenced paper is published in. <br>• year (int64): Year of publication of the referenced paper. <br>• in_acl (bool): Boolean indicating if the referenced is referenced in ACL Anthology. <br>• citationCount (int64): Citation count of the paper extracted from Semantic Scholar API. <br>• section (string): Name of the section of the reading list the referenced paper is listed in. <br>• subsection (string): Name of the subsection of the reading list the referenced paper is listed in.

Licence

Dataset: CC BY-NC 4.0

If you use this dataset you may use, share, and adapt the dataset for non-commercial research or educational purposes only.

Citation

@inproceedings{aubert-beduchaud-etal-2025-acl,
    title = "{ACL}-rlg: A Dataset for Reading List Generation",
    author = "Aubert-B{\'e}duchaud, Julien  and
      Boudin, Florian  and
      Daille, B{\'e}atrice  and
      Dufour, Richard",
    editor = "Rambow, Owen  and
      Wanner, Leo  and
      Apidianaki, Marianna  and
      Al-Khalifa, Hend  and
      Eugenio, Barbara Di  and
      Schockaert, Steven",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = jan,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.327/",
    pages = "4910--4919",
    abstract = "Familiarizing oneself with a new scientific field and its existing literature can be daunting due to the large amount of available articles. Curated lists of academic references, or reading lists, compiled by experts, offer a structured way to gain a comprehensive overview of a domain or a specific scientific challenge. In this work, we introduce ACL-rlg, the largest open expert-annotated reading list dataset. We also provide multiple baselines for evaluating reading list generation and formally define it as a retrieval task. Our qualitative study highlights that traditional scholarly search engines and indexing methods perform poorly on this task, and GPT-4o, despite showing better results, exhibits signs of potential data contamination."
}

Julien Aubert-Béduchaud, Florian Boudin, Béatrice Daille, and Richard Dufour. 2025. ACL-rlg: A Dataset for Reading List Generation. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 4910–4919, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.