Pith Number

pith:XA4UODO4

pith:2018:XA4UODO46CYJCNUWABK2D5RZNU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Story Disambiguation: Tracking Evolving News Stories across News and Social Streams

Bichen Shi, Georgiana Ifrim, Neil Hurley, Thanh-Binh Le

arxiv:1808.05906 v1 · 2018-08-16 · cs.CL · cs.IR · cs.LG · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XA4UODO46CYJCNUWABK2D5RZNU}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T00:07:51.707599Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b839470ddcf0b09136960055a1f6396d1b22b3861d3345e169eb821bd46f3dfb

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.05906 · arxiv_version: 1808.05906v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.05906 · pith_short_12: XA4UODO46CYJ · pith_short_16: XA4UODO46CYJCNUW · pith_short_8: XA4UODO4

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/XA4UODO46CYJCNUWABK2D5RZNU \
  | 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: b839470ddcf0b09136960055a1f6396d1b22b3861d3345e169eb821bd46f3dfb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "894cf3fc1dd37d0fdb52de24f877612d398bc118380b6fc9e8e135724db7b17c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR",
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-16T09:02:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1869356ea655cfe2d4f369cb4bfc6f101e10969205f989a4428524bf06133d3d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.05906",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}