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pith:VCSA5N2I

pith:2018:VCSA5N2I6WX22E6GJC7CXGFFBB

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Building a Conversational Agent Overnight with Dialogue Self-Play

Abhinav Rastogi, Ankur Bapna, Dilek Hakkani-T\"ur, Gokhan T\"ur, Larry Heck, Neha Nayak, Pararth Shah

arxiv:1801.04871 v1 · 2018-01-15 · cs.AI · cs.CL

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:26:02.974901Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8a40eb748f5afad13c648be2b98a5086a0db70812189bc52f780d8b0d0def07

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.04871 · arxiv_version: 1801.04871v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.04871 · pith_short_12: VCSA5N2I6WX2 · pith_short_16: VCSA5N2I6WX22E6G · pith_short_8: VCSA5N2I

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VCSA5N2I6WX22E6GJC7CXGFFBB \
  | 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: a8a40eb748f5afad13c648be2b98a5086a0db70812189bc52f780d8b0d0def07

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-15T16:45:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "25e53f81788e6b6fe36e4e7e39572075f463cecde6c3c430b9a72b95f25757af"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.04871",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}