Library question: reassigned papers after creating a new verified author

[nschneid]

In the script I am using to process verification requests, one of the workflows is to create a brand new Person and link that person to specific papers from one or more previously unverified Persons. I want to set disable_name_matching for the new verified Person on an as-needed basis. That is, if the new verified Person would have additional existing papers showing up on the author page via implicit name matching, I want them to be excluded.

Is there a straightforward way to list all the papers that would show up on the new author page? When I use person.papers() it doesn't work—I take it that relies on some other part of the library to instantiate the item_ids for the Person. @mbollmann

[mbollmann]

That sounds like a case of needing to reset the person index: https://acl-anthology.readthedocs.io/py-v1.0.0/guide/modifying-data/#dependent-indices

I hope this can be made smarter in the future (especially now with the new author system it should be easier).

[nschneid]

Oh I see. I had tried resetting the index but it meant changes to people.yaml weren't being saved. I think I have to call save_all() before the reset as well as after subsequent changes.

[mbollmann]

Ah, I might not have considered that enough. I should revisit this entire system, I think now that the author transition is done, more optimizations may have become feasible that were trickier before.