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Quote Erat Demonstrandum: A Web Interface for Exploring the Quotebank Corpus

Information Retrieval 2022-07-11 v1 Computation and Language Databases

Abstract

The use of attributed quotes is the most direct and least filtered pathway of information propagation in news. Consequently, quotes play a central role in the conception, reception, and analysis of news stories. Since quotes provide a more direct window into a speaker's mind than regular reporting, they are a valuable resource for journalists and researchers alike. While substantial research efforts have been devoted to methods for the automated extraction of quotes from news and their attribution to speakers, few comprehensive corpora of attributed quotes from contemporary sources are available to the public. Here, we present an adaptive web interface for searching Quotebank, a massive collection of quotes from the news, which we make available at https://quotebank.dlab.tools.

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@article{arxiv.2207.03592,
  title  = {Quote Erat Demonstrandum: A Web Interface for Exploring the Quotebank Corpus},
  author = {Vuk Vuković and Akhil Arora and Huan-Cheng Chang and Andreas Spitz and Robert West},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.03592},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

SIGIR 2022 (Demo), 5 pages, 2 figures

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