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

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.03592 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.03592/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 6 of its 21 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 7 Jul 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 6 of 6)

- [Automated Fact Checking in the News Room](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.02037/) (2019)
- [DirectQuote: A Dataset for Direct Quotation Extraction and Attribution in News Articles](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.07827/) (2021)
- [QUOTUS: The Structure of Political Media Coverage as Revealed by Quoting Patterns](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1504.01383/) (2015)
- [Quootstrap: Scalable Unsupervised Extraction of Quotation-Speaker Pairs from Large News Corpora via Bootstrapping](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.02525/) (2018)
- ["Don't quote me on that": Finding Mixtures of Sources in News Articles](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.09656/) (2021)
- [Context-Based Quotation Recommendation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.08319/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [The ROOTS Search Tool: Data Transparency for LLMs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.14035/) (2023)
- [GAIA Search: Hugging Face and Pyserini Interoperability for NLP Training Data Exploration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.01481/) (2023)
- [Spacerini: Plug-and-play Search Engines with Pyserini and Hugging Face](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.14534/) (2023)
- [Multi-Layer Ranking with Large Language Models for News Source Recommendation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.11745/) (2024)
- [Getting Your Indices in a Row: Full-Text Search for LLM Training Data for Real World](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.09471/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

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.