Pith Number

pith:5MSRUSHZ

pith:1996:5MSRUSHZHW3EO7LTDVNOB7PX2C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Japanese Discourse and the Process of Centering

Marilyn Walker, Masayo Iida, Sharon Cote

arxiv:cmp-lg/9609006 v1 · 1996-09-24 · cmp-lg · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5MSRUSHZHW3EO7LTDVNOB7PX2C}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T15:08:29.909139Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eb251a48f93db6477d731d5ae0fdf7d08ec764069078d0b846ebf2a419e69796

Aliases

arxiv: cmp-lg/9609006 · arxiv_version: cmp-lg/9609006v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cmp-lg/9609006 · pith_short_12: 5MSRUSHZHW3E · pith_short_16: 5MSRUSHZHW3EO7LT · pith_short_8: 5MSRUSHZ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5MSRUSHZHW3EO7LTDVNOB7PX2C \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: eb251a48f93db6477d731d5ae0fdf7d08ec764069078d0b846ebf2a419e69796

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "72ccc288ce492df9a621e3375d75526566f4fd2a1c343a54ea7c4cda6e6c1e17",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cmp-lg",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-24T20:45:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fc90e39f9ec5d004fd6f52e746f3bf9876a53fa0bc7fed6536bb722873ed37df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cmp-lg/9609006",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}