How does the ACL Anthology use Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)?

The ACL uses DOIs to refer to scholarly works persistently in accordance with cross-disciplinary standards. Prior to 2012, ACL materials were assigned DOIs by the Association of Computational Machinery (ACM). Since 2014, ACL has assigned its own DOIs to materials using a convention based off of the ACL Anthology Identifiers. In 2015, ACL had to change DOI prefix due to accounting practices for the ACM.

Prefixes:

DOIs assigned under 10.18653 through September 2026 use v1/ before the Anthology ID (10.18653/v1/{Anthology ID}). DOIs assigned after September 2026 omit v1/ (10.18653/{Anthology ID}). Existing DOIs are unchanged; use the DOI listed on a publication’s Anthology page rather than inferring it from its ID.

We strongly encourage the publication of DOIs in citing bibliographies to help better cross-reference ACL materials.

Note while the ACL Anthology hosts third-party materials coming from sister societies, these materials are hosted courtesy the ACL but are not assigned DOIs by the ACL due to costs and copyright limitations; the DOI information above is only applicable to ACL sponsored events by ACL, its chapters or SIGs.