Pith Number

pith:V4YYYIN3

pith:2026:V4YYYIN3Y4JGLOBJDTAUHAW5RK

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The Multilingual Curse at the Retrieval Layer: Evidence from Amharic

Kidist Amde Mekonnen, Maarten de Rijke, Yosef Worku Alemneh

arxiv:2605.24556 v1 · 2026-05-23 · cs.IR · cs.CL · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V4YYYIN3Y4JGLOBJDTAUHAW5RK}

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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	2026-05-26T01:03:46.206018Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af318c21bbc71265b8291cc14382dd8aaf551b8a9d49fe6cdc7d6452de0a274e

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.24556 · arxiv_version: 2605.24556v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.24556 · pith_short_12: V4YYYIN3Y4JG · pith_short_16: V4YYYIN3Y4JGLOBJ · pith_short_8: V4YYYIN3

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/V4YYYIN3Y4JGLOBJDTAUHAW5RK \
  | 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: af318c21bbc71265b8291cc14382dd8aaf551b8a9d49fe6cdc7d6452de0a274e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5cf1d909d261ef952e2ce1e7675d8a1213fbc2b41a7eab7fc858ab1e2d3d446b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-23T12:44:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "619fffaf6395ba870aa1a85cf1da8632722a0640e3414089ebe30bad82e2011c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.24556",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}