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RA-MTR: A Retrieval Augmented Multi-Task Reader based Approach for Inspirational Quote Extraction from Long Documents

Sayantan Adak, Animesh Mukherjee

Abstract

Inspirational quotes from famous individuals are often used to convey thoughts in news articles, essays, and everyday conversations. In this paper, we propose a novel context-based quote extraction system that aims to predict the most relevant quote from a long text. We formulate this quote extraction as an open domain question answering problem first by employing a vector-store based retriever and then applying a multi-task reader. We curate three context-based quote extraction dataset and introduce a novel multi-task framework RA-MTR that improves the state-of-the-art performance, achieving a maximum improvement of 5.08% in BoW F1-score.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{adak-mukherjee-2025-ra,
    title = "{RA}-{MTR}: A Retrieval Augmented Multi-Task Reader based Approach for Inspirational Quote Extraction from Long Documents",
    author = "Adak, Sayantan  and
      Mukherjee, Animesh",
    editor = "Rambow, Owen  and
      Wanner, Leo  and
      Apidianaki, Marianna  and
      Al-Khalifa, Hend  and
      Eugenio, Barbara Di  and
      Schockaert, Steven",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = jan,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.365/",
    pages = "5443--5462"
}