Pith Number

pith:4XRTLZ5S

pith:2025:4XRTLZ5S6TREB4UI2T2SGSFHCU

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

No Stupid Questions: An Analysis of Question Query Generation for Citation Recommendation

Akiko Aizawa, Brian D. Zimmerman, Florian Boudin, Julien Aubert-B\'educhaud, Olga Vechtomova

arxiv:2506.08196 v1 · 2025-06-09 · cs.IR · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4XRTLZ5S6TREB4UI2T2SGSFHCU}

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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	2026-07-05T11:18:46.133410Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e5e335e7b2f4e240f288d4f52348a71526d9aab3afc7633042fcb69541441daf

Aliases

arxiv: 2506.08196 · arxiv_version: 2506.08196v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.08196 · pith_short_12: 4XRTLZ5S6TRE · pith_short_16: 4XRTLZ5S6TREB4UI · pith_short_8: 4XRTLZ5S

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/4XRTLZ5S6TREB4UI2T2SGSFHCU \
  | 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: e5e335e7b2f4e240f288d4f52348a71526d9aab3afc7633042fcb69541441daf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "284adf92efdcd171e78a5543ea20f96b50c99c24ba2845751429da85c33d30f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-06-09T20:13:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f0c5128c45233e7293d808d610526b4e14b230884705ab878a7af85232ae4105"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2506.08196",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}