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pith:2018:YYSTYEWJPSIWRPU5KWO36Q3J4D
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Who Started It? Identifying Root Sources in Textual Conversation Threads

Derek Owens-Oas, Fan Bu, Katherine Heller, Wei Zhang, Xiaojin Zhu

arxiv:1809.03648 v2 · 2018-09-11 · cs.SI

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Canonical hash

c6253c12c97c9168be9d559dbf4369e0f0450fc7bb4400f26d2feaad7027828f

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.03648 · arxiv_version: 1809.03648v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.03648 · pith_short_12: YYSTYEWJPSIW · pith_short_16: YYSTYEWJPSIWRPU5 · pith_short_8: YYSTYEWJ
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YYSTYEWJPSIWRPU5KWO36Q3J4D \
  | 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: c6253c12c97c9168be9d559dbf4369e0f0450fc7bb4400f26d2feaad7027828f
Canonical record JSON
{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d2c286572ac0d2951b9bbea743b219b9e19bcc537c7a88a2b93df5ea29dea48",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-11T01:37:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8cc551cd474c94d2900f778e7d72d68b51f1e8f4c335c5d095217f67a9ec7f30"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.03648",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}