Semantic search for ACL conference papers about NLP. Embeds the query with a Sentence-Transformers model (Snowflake arctic-embed-s, 384-dim, matching the collection index) and returns the most similar papers ranked by cosine similarity. USE THIS when the user has a research topic or question and wants to find relevant papers. Narrow results with structured filters: publication year (exact or range), venue/booktitle, collection acronym (e.g. ACL/EMNLP/NAACL), collection id, field of study, or author. Set vector_name to search within a specific summary dimension (overview/approach/challenge/outcome).

Fetch a single ACL conference NLP paper by its paper_uuid (the Qdrant point id). USE THIS to inspect a paper in full detail — abstract, summaries, method/task entities — when you already have its ID from a search_papers or list_papers result. Returns the complete paper payload.

Browse ACL conference NLP papers using structured filters only (no semantic query). USE THIS to list papers when you know the filters but have no search text — e.g. 'all ACL 2024 papers' or 'all papers by this author'. Supports year/venue/acronym/field_of_study/author filters and pagination via offset (the last paper_uuid from the previous batch).

Discover the ACL NLP papers collection schema: vector dimensions, distance metrics, total paper count, and sampled distinct values for filterable fields (years, venue acronyms, booktitles, fields of study). USE THIS first when you need to know what venues, years, or fields exist before building search_papers or list_papers filters.