Quote Erat Demonstrandum: A Web Interface for Exploring the Quotebank Corpus
This provides a tool for journalists and researchers to explore attributed quotes, but it is incremental as it focuses on interface development rather than new data or extraction methods.
The authors tackled the lack of publicly available comprehensive corpora of attributed quotes from contemporary news sources by presenting an adaptive web interface for searching Quotebank, a massive collection of quotes, making it accessible at https://quotebank.dlab.tools.
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.