ACL Anthology BibTeX Splitter

The ACL Anthology bib file keeps growing, and at some point it got too big for Overleaf's file size limit. This is a quick fix. The script fetches the latest version and splits it by year range, so you only include the decades you actually cite. Things move fast in in the field, we do not have to carry all the history weight, haha.

Usage

python3 split_bib.py

This will:

1. Download the latest anthology.bib from https://aclanthology.org/anthology.bib
2. Split entries by publication year into:
   • anthology_before_2000.bib
   • anthology_2001_2010.bib
   • anthology_2011_2020.bib
   • anthology_2021_2030.bib
   • continues