Update ACL citation style file

[mbollmann]

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With the addition of preformatted citation strings (#1390), we're now using citeproc to generate a reference string in ACL bibliography format. We'd like to keep citeproc for now in order to have the flexibility to easily add more citation forms (e.g., APA) later.

However, this relies on an ACL citation style file last updated in 2015.

It might be a good idea to go through this file and see if/where it needs updating. It would be particularly good if the paper title could be wrapped in a <span> so that we don't need to use ugly hacks to link-ify them; or maybe even add these links directly in the style file (I don't know if this possible in CSL).

Maybe this is also of interest for the https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB team?

[mjpost]

Ping @davidweichiang

[davidweichiang]

I think @nschneid might be the expert on this.

[nschneid]

I've looked at CSL before but "expert" would be overstating it. :D The docs mention including URLs/DOIs but I think that is printing the URL rather than linking the title?

[mbollmann]

Ah, bummer:

The CSL syntax does not have support for configuration of links.

[mbollmann]

So probably it's the CSL processor (https://github.com/brechtm/citeproc-py/ for us currently) which would need to support marking up or linking titles. Let's treat that as a separate question, then.

There's still the question of whether & how the ACL BibTeX style might have been updated over the years, and if we are interested in keeping the CSL file up-to-date as well.