Evaluating the Efficacy of AI Techniques in Textual Anonymization: A Comparative Study

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Main Authors: Asimopoulos, Dimitris, Siniosoglou, Ilias, Argyriou, Vasileios, Goudos, Sotirios K., Psannis, Konstantinos E., Karditsioti, Nikoleta, Saoulidis, Theocharis, Sarigiannidis, Panagiotis
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author Asimopoulos, Dimitris
Siniosoglou, Ilias
Argyriou, Vasileios
Goudos, Sotirios K.
Psannis, Konstantinos E.
Karditsioti, Nikoleta
Saoulidis, Theocharis
Sarigiannidis, Panagiotis
author_facet Asimopoulos, Dimitris
Siniosoglou, Ilias
Argyriou, Vasileios
Goudos, Sotirios K.
Psannis, Konstantinos E.
Karditsioti, Nikoleta
Saoulidis, Theocharis
Sarigiannidis, Panagiotis
contents In the digital era, with escalating privacy concerns, it's imperative to devise robust strategies that protect private data while maintaining the intrinsic value of textual information. This research embarks on a comprehensive examination of text anonymisation methods, focusing on Conditional Random Fields (CRF), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Embeddings from Language Models (ELMo), and the transformative capabilities of the Transformers architecture. Each model presents unique strengths since LSTM is modeling long-term dependencies, CRF captures dependencies among word sequences, ELMo delivers contextual word representations using deep bidirectional language models and Transformers introduce self-attention mechanisms that provide enhanced scalability. Our study is positioned as a comparative analysis of these models, emphasising their synergistic potential in addressing text anonymisation challenges. Preliminary results indicate that CRF, LSTM, and ELMo individually outperform traditional methods. The inclusion of Transformers, when compared alongside with the other models, offers a broader perspective on achieving optimal text anonymisation in contemporary settings.
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spellingShingle Evaluating the Efficacy of AI Techniques in Textual Anonymization: A Comparative Study
Asimopoulos, Dimitris
Siniosoglou, Ilias
Argyriou, Vasileios
Goudos, Sotirios K.
Psannis, Konstantinos E.
Karditsioti, Nikoleta
Saoulidis, Theocharis
Sarigiannidis, Panagiotis
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
In the digital era, with escalating privacy concerns, it's imperative to devise robust strategies that protect private data while maintaining the intrinsic value of textual information. This research embarks on a comprehensive examination of text anonymisation methods, focusing on Conditional Random Fields (CRF), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Embeddings from Language Models (ELMo), and the transformative capabilities of the Transformers architecture. Each model presents unique strengths since LSTM is modeling long-term dependencies, CRF captures dependencies among word sequences, ELMo delivers contextual word representations using deep bidirectional language models and Transformers introduce self-attention mechanisms that provide enhanced scalability. Our study is positioned as a comparative analysis of these models, emphasising their synergistic potential in addressing text anonymisation challenges. Preliminary results indicate that CRF, LSTM, and ELMo individually outperform traditional methods. The inclusion of Transformers, when compared alongside with the other models, offers a broader perspective on achieving optimal text anonymisation in contemporary settings.
title Evaluating the Efficacy of AI Techniques in Textual Anonymization: A Comparative Study
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06709