Author, as appears in the article.: Pilan, Ildiko; Lison, Pierre; ovrelid, Lilja; Papadopoulou, Anthi; Sanchez, David; Batet, Montserrat
Department: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
URV's Author/s: Batet Sanromà, Montserrat / Sánchez Ruenes, David
Abstract: We present a novel benchmark and associated evaluation metrics for assessing the performance of text anonymization methods. Text anonymization, defined as the task of editing a text document to prevent the disclosure of personal information, currently suffers from a shortage of privacy-oriented annotated text resources, making it difficult to properly evaluate the level of privacy protection offered by various anonymization methods. This paper presents TAB (Text Anony-mization Benchmark), a new, open-source annotated corpus developed to address this shortage. The corpus comprises 1,268 English-language court cases from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) enriched with comprehensive annotations about the personal information appearing in each document, including their semantic category, identifier type, confidential attributes, and co-reference relations. Compared with previous work, the TAB corpus is designed to go beyond traditional de-identification (which is limited to the detection of predefined semantic categories), and explicitly marks which text spans ought to be masked in order to conceal the identity of the person to be protected. Along with presenting the corpus and its annotation layers, we also propose a set of evaluation metrics that are specifically tailored toward measuring the performance of text anonymization, both in terms of privacy protection and utility preservation. We illustrate the use of the benchmark and the proposed metrics by assessing the empirical performance of several baseline text anonymization models. The full corpus along with its privacy-oriented annotation guidelines, evaluation scripts, and baseline models are available on: https://github.com /NorskRegnesentral/text-anonymization-benchmark.
Thematic Areas: Linguistics and language Linguistics Language and linguistics Language & linguistics Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística Computer science, interdisciplinary applications Computer science, artificial intelligence Computer science applications Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Ciência da computação Artificial intelligence Applied linguistics
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: montserrat.batet@urv.cat david.sanchez@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-8174-7592 0000-0001-7275-7887
Record's date: 2024-10-12
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://direct.mit.edu/coli/article/48/4/1053/112770/The-Text-Anonymization-Benchmark-TAB-A-Dedicated
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Computational Linguistics. 48 (4): 1053-1101
APA: Pilan, Ildiko; Lison, Pierre; ovrelid, Lilja; Papadopoulou, Anthi; Sanchez, David; Batet, Montserrat (2022). The Text Anonymization Benchmark (TAB): A Dedicated Corpus and Evaluation Framework for Text Anonymization. Computational Linguistics, 48(4), 1053-1101. DOI: 10.1162/coli_a_00458
Article's DOI: 10.1162/coli_a_00458
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2022
Publication Type: Journal Publications