  The ACL Anthology (AA) is a digital repository of tens of thousands of
articles on Natural Language Processing (NLP). This paper examines the
literature as a whole to identify broad trends in productivity, focus, and
impact. It presents the analyses in a sequence of questions and answers. The
goal is to record the state of the AA literature: who and how many of us are
publishing? what are we publishing on? where and in what form are we
publishing? and what is the impact of our publications? The answers are usually
in the form of numbers, graphs, and inter-connected visualizations. Special
emphasis is laid on the demographics and inclusiveness of NLP publishing.
Notably, we find that only about 30% of first authors are female, and that this
percentage has not improved since the year 2000. We also show that, on average,
female first authors are cited less than male first authors, even when
controlling for experience. We hope that recording citation and participation
gaps across demographic groups will encourage more inclusiveness and fairness
in research.
