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pith:NQRMBV2T

pith:2021:NQRMBV2TGXWWYCYJZWQFNUBHIM

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A Comparative Study of Transformer-Based Language Models on Extractive Question Answering

Aneesh Komanduri, Justin Zhan, Kate Pearce, Tiffany Zhan

arxiv:2110.03142 v1 · 2021-10-07 · cs.CL

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A Survey of the State-of-the-Art in Conversational Question Answering Systems

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:20:39.885627Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

6c22c0d75335ed6c0b09cda056d027430747fe66551e7a937b9f92fc019b6b7b

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arxiv: 2110.03142 · arxiv_version: 2110.03142v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2110.03142 · pith_short_12: NQRMBV2TGXWW · pith_short_16: NQRMBV2TGXWWYCYJ · pith_short_8: NQRMBV2T

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NQRMBV2TGXWWYCYJZWQFNUBHIM \
  | 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: 6c22c0d75335ed6c0b09cda056d027430747fe66551e7a937b9f92fc019b6b7b

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2021-10-07T02:23:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bb1a74804d98252685ff99960c0e27ca04fcffe3a02398e19a1b06ba65dd6eb2"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}