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The goal of homomorphic encryption is to encrypt data such that another party can operate on it without being explicitly exposed to the content of the original data. We introduce an idea for a privacy-preserving transformation on natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Zhifeng Hu , Serhii Havrylov , Ivan Titov , Shay B. Cohen

Personal photos of individuals when shared online, apart from exhibiting a myriad of memorable details, also reveals a wide range of private information and potentially entails privacy risks (e.g., online harassment, tracking). To mitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Hui-Po Wang , Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Mario Fritz

Authorship attribution is the problem of identifying the most plausible author of an anonymous text from a set of candidate authors. Researchers have investigated same-topic and cross-topic scenarios of authorship attribution, which differ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Malik H. Altakrori , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung , Benjamin C. M. Fung

Authorship obfuscation, rewriting a text to intentionally obscure the identity of the author, is an important but challenging task. Current methods using large language models (LLMs) lack interpretability and controllability, often ignoring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Jillian Fisher , Skyler Hallinan , Ximing Lu , Mitchell Gordon , Zaid Harchaoui , Yejin Choi

In this paper, we investigate the efficacy of large language models (LLMs) in obfuscating authorship by paraphrasing and altering writing styles. Rather than adopting a holistic approach that evaluates performance across the entire dataset,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Mohammad Shokri , Sarah Ita Levitan , Rivka Levitan

Maintaining anonymity in natural language communication remains a challenging task. Even when the number of candidate authors is large, standard authorship attribution techniques that analyze writing style predict the original author with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Haining Wang , Patrick Juola , Allen Riddell

In this work, we address the problem of text anonymization where the goal is to prevent adversaries from correctly inferring private attributes of the author, while keeping the text utility, i.e., meaning and semantics. We propose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Ahmed Frikha , Nassim Walha , Krishna Kanth Nakka , Ricardo Mendes , Xue Jiang , Xuebing Zhou

Text-based analysis methods allow to reveal privacy relevant author attributes such as gender, age and identify of the text's author. Such methods can compromise the privacy of an anonymous author even when the author tries to remove…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Rakshith Shetty , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Consider a scenario where an author-e.g., activist, whistle-blower, with many public writings wishes to write "anonymously" when attackers may have already built an authorship attribution (AA) model based off of public writings including…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Ziyao Wang , Thai Le , Dongwon Lee

Attribute inference - the process of analyzing publicly available data in order to uncover hidden information - has become a major threat to privacy, given the recent technological leap in machine learning. One way to tackle this threat is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Marcin Waniek , Navya Suri , Abdullah Zameek , Bedoor AlShebli , Talal Rahwan

Authorship Identification techniques are used to identify the most appropriate author from group of potential suspects of online messages and find evidences to support the conclusion. Cybercriminals make misuse of online communication for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-02-20 Smita Nirkhi , R. V. Dharaskar

The permanence of online content combined with the enhanced authorship identification techniques calls for stronger computational methods to protect the identity and privacy of online authorship when needed, e.g., blind reviews for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Jillian Fisher , Ximing Lu , Jaehun Jung , Liwei Jiang , Zaid Harchaoui , Yejin Choi

Authorship attribution techniques are increasingly being used in online contexts such as sock puppet detection, malicious account linking, and cross-platform account linking. Yet, it is unknown whether these models perform equitably across…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Jasmin Wyss , Rebekah Overdorf

Authorship identification is a process in which the author of a text is identified. Most known literary texts can easily be attributed to a certain author because they are, for example, signed. Yet sometimes we find unfinished pieces of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Rahul Radhakrishnan Iyer , Carolyn Penstein Rose

Plagiarism detection in programming education faces growing challenges due to increasingly sophisticated obfuscation techniques, particularly automated refactoring-based attacks. While code plagiarism detection systems used in education…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Robin Maisch , Larissa Schmid , Timur Sağlam , Nils Niehues

Adversarial examples pose a significant challenge to deep neural networks (DNNs) across both image and text domains, with the intent to degrade model performance through meticulously altered inputs. Adversarial texts, however, are distinct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Shakila Mahjabin Tonni , Pedro Faustini , Mark Dras

We address the problem of how to "obfuscate" texts by removing stylistic clues which can identify authorship, whilst preserving (as much as possible) the content of the text. In this paper we combine ideas from "generalised differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Natasha Fernandes , Mark Dras , Annabelle McIver

Text mining and information retrieval techniques have been developed to assist us with analyzing, organizing and retrieving documents with the help of computers. In many cases, it is desirable that the authors of such documents remain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Benjamin Weggenmann , Florian Kerschbaum

Program obfuscation is a widely employed approach for software intellectual property protection. However, general obfuscation methods (e.g., lexical obfuscation, control obfuscation) implemented in mainstream obfuscation tools are heuristic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Hui Xu , Yangfan Zhou , Yu Kang , Michael R. Lyu

Plagiarism in programming assignments is a persistent issue in computer science education, increasingly complicated by the emergence of automated obfuscation attacks. While software plagiarism detectors are widely used to identify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Timur Sağlam , Larissa Schmid