Pith Number

pith:BIWXGUP6

pith:2019:BIWXGUP6WNZ352EXSQBOHNUUDJ

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Learning to Explain: Answering Why-Questions via Rephrasing

Allen Nie, Erin D. Bennett, Noah D. Goodman

arxiv:1906.01243 v1 · 2019-06-04 · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BIWXGUP6WNZ352EXSQBOHNUUDJ}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-17T23:44:17.393090Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a2d7351feb373bee8979402e3b6941a60bd2cb33cc36a0aa33412a78a86b17a

Aliases

arxiv: 1906.01243 · arxiv_version: 1906.01243v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1906.01243 · pith_short_12: BIWXGUP6WNZ3 · pith_short_16: BIWXGUP6WNZ352EX · pith_short_8: BIWXGUP6

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/BIWXGUP6WNZ352EXSQBOHNUUDJ \
  | 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: 0a2d7351feb373bee8979402e3b6941a60bd2cb33cc36a0aa33412a78a86b17a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "456e4483a56724cd450a7f31ce73b082fe2ba696cce56c7269730af2a3ba56be",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2019-06-04T07:27:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85f5db08ff5ce05ea26fb173b8f79d93964206877031ace1669a13a50111bece"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1906.01243",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}