Pith Number

pith:ED5MP63G

pith:1996:ED5MP63GSGPO6BNIDLFMWSTG4C

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Centering in Japanese Discourse

Marilyn Walker, Masayo Iida, Sharon Cote

arxiv:cmp-lg/9609005 v1 · 1996-09-24 · cmp-lg · cs.CL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ED5MP63GSGPO6BNIDLFMWSTG4C}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-04T15:08:29.890283Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

20fac7fb66919eef05a81acacb4a66e0add33796b2de378927dfff36cdf3956a

Aliases

arxiv: cmp-lg/9609005 · arxiv_version: cmp-lg/9609005v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cmp-lg/9609005 · pith_short_12: ED5MP63GSGPO · pith_short_16: ED5MP63GSGPO6BNI · pith_short_8: ED5MP63G

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/ED5MP63GSGPO6BNIDLFMWSTG4C \
  | 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: 20fac7fb66919eef05a81acacb4a66e0add33796b2de378927dfff36cdf3956a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e0bb5c4977efe001978a23e71d57d3753c6f2f40dd291b5ff52075eb96e24803",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cmp-lg",
    "submitted_at": "1996-09-24T20:03:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "72a3b3f77fbb2f8c9d372f9eab7e98c445fbcaf88697a022b85b5d6a19c65019"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cmp-lg/9609005",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}