QuidEx Documentation

QuidEx was created as part of the project What matters? Key passages in literary works [1]. The project website describes the project as follows:

The goal of this exploratory project is to identify and characterize key passages in literary works. We understand key passages as passages that are particularly important to expert readers when interpreting texts. In a mixed-methods approach, we primarily want to investigate empirically which textual characteristics of literary genres can be revealed through patterns of citation and quotation.

QuidEx is a tool to visualize and explore quotations between a source text, for example, a literary work, and one or more target texts, for example, scholarly interpretations. General Usage is the best entry point to a step-by-step introduction. Individual functionality is described in in Overview. For an introduction to how passages are created from quotations, see Background.

Contact

Frederik Arnold

Or open an issue in one of our repositories. For issues regarding QuidEx or this documentation, use QuidEx-Wh. For issues regarding anything related to tooling for extracting quotations, use Quid or ProQuo.

Publications

There are a number of publications that build the foundation for QuidEx.

For our tool Quid for the identification and linking of quotations of five words or more, and the original introduction of QuidEx, cite:

@inproceedings{arnold2021,
  title = {{L}otte and {A}nnette: {A} {F}ramework for {F}inding and {E}xploring {K}ey {P}assages in {L}iterary {W}orks},
  author = {Arnold, Frederik and Jäschke, Robert},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {NLP Association of India (NLPAI)},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4dh-1.7},
  pages = {55--63}
}

For an introduction to Quid and QuidEx in German, cite:

@proceedings{arnold2022,
  title = {{Lesen, was wirklich wichtig ist - Die Identifikation von Schlüsselstellen durch ein neues Instrument zur Zitatanalyse}},
  year = 2022,
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6327917},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6327917}
}

For our tool ProQuo for the identification and linking of short quotations, cite:

@article{arnold2023,
  author = {Frederik Arnold, Robert Jäschke},
  title = {A Novel Approach for Identification and Linking of Short Quotations in Scholarly Texts and Literary Works},
  volume = {2},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://jcls.io/article/id/3590/},
  issue = {1},
  doi = {10.48694/jcls.3590},
  month = {1},
  publisher={Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt},
  journal = {Journal of Computational Literary Studies}
}

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