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Anonymizing text that contains sensitive information is crucial for a wide range of applications. Existing techniques face the emerging challenges of the re-identification ability of large language models (LLMs), which have shown advanced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Tianyu Yang , Xiaodan Zhu , Iryna Gurevych

In this work, we aim at equipping pre-trained language models with structured knowledge. We present two self-supervised tasks learning over raw text with the guidance from knowledge graphs. Building upon entity-level masked language models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Tao Shen , Yi Mao , Pengcheng He , Guodong Long , Adam Trischler , Weizhu Chen

Scene graph generation aims to identify objects and their relations in images, providing structured image representations that can facilitate numerous applications in computer vision. However, scene graph models usually require supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Yuan Yao , Ao Zhang , Xu Han , Mengdi Li , Cornelius Weber , Zhiyuan Liu , Stefan Wermter , Maosong Sun

Anonymization plays a key role in protecting sensible information of individuals in real world datasets. Self-driving cars for example need high resolution facial features to track people and their viewing direction to predict future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Pascal Zwick , Kevin Roesch , Marvin Klemp , Oliver Bringmann

There is a known tension between the need to analyze personal data to drive business and privacy concerns. Many data protection regulations, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Protection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Abigail Goldsteen , Gilad Ezov , Ron Shmelkin , Micha Moffie , Ariel Farkash

The proliferation of textual data containing sensitive personal information across various domains requires robust anonymization techniques to protect privacy and comply with regulations, while preserving data usability for diverse and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Tobias Deußer , Lorenz Sparrenberg , Armin Berger , Max Hahnbück , Christian Bauckhage , Rafet Sifa

Capturing the interesting components of an image is a key aspect of image understanding. When a speaker annotates an image, selecting labels that are informative greatly depends on the prior knowledge of a prospective listener. Motivated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Lior Bracha , Gal Chechik

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

The essential task of verifying person identities at airports and national borders is very time consuming. To accelerate it, optical character recognition for identity documents (IDs) using dictionaries is not appropriate due to high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Oliver Mothes , Joachim Denzler

In the wake of a polarizing election, social media is laden with hateful content. To address various limitations of supervised hate speech classification methods including corpus bias and huge cost of annotation, we propose a weakly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Lei Gao , Alexis Kuppersmith , Ruihong Huang

In today's digital world, casual user-generated content often contains subtle cues that may inadvertently expose sensitive personal attributes. Such risks underscore the growing importance of effective text anonymization to safeguard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Chenyang Shao , Tianxing Li , Chenhao Pu , Fengli Xu , Yong Li

Massive digital data processing provides a wide range of opportunities and benefits, but at the cost of endangering personal data privacy. Anonymisation consists in removing or replacing sensitive information from data, enabling its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Aitor García-Pablos , Naiara Perez , Montse Cuadros

Training a neural network with a large labeled dataset is still a dominant paradigm in computational histopathology. However, obtaining such exhaustive manual annotations is often expensive, laborious, and prone to inter and Intra-observer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Chetan L. Srinidhi , Seung Wook Kim , Fu-Der Chen , Anne L. Martel

Text anonymization is the process of removing or obfuscating information from textual data to protect the privacy of individuals. This process inherently involves a complex trade-off between privacy protection and information preservation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Gabriel Loiseau , Damien Sileo , Damien Riquet , Maxime Meyer , Marc Tommasi

Word spotting is a popular tool for supporting the first exploration of historic, handwritten document collections. Today, the best performing methods rely on machine learning techniques, which require a high amount of annotated training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Fabian Wolf , Gernot A. Fink

Text-embedding models often exhibit biases arising from the data on which they are trained. In this paper, we examine a hitherto unexplored bias in text-embeddings: bias arising from the presence of $\textit{names}$ such as persons,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Sahil Manchanda , Pannaga Shivaswamy

Currently, machine learning techniques have seen significant success across various applications. Most of these techniques rely on supervision from human-generated labels or a mixture of noisy and imprecise labels from multiple sources.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yanbo Wang , Wenyu Chen , Shimin Shan

Leveraging unlabelled data through weak or distant supervision is a compelling approach to developing more effective text classification models. This paper proposes a simple but effective data augmentation method, which leverages the idea…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Qin Ruan , Brian Mac Namee , Ruihai Dong

Data containing personal information is increasingly used to train, fine-tune, or query Large Language Models (LLMs). Text is typically scrubbed of identifying information prior to use, often with tools such as Microsoft's Presidio or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Nataša Krčo , Zexi Yao , Matthieu Meeus , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Many real-world applications require automated data annotation, such as identifying tissue origins based on gene expressions and classifying images into semantic categories. Annotation classes are often numerous and subject to changes over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Maxim Grechkin , Hoifung Poon , Bill Howe