Is It Safe to Tell Your Story? Towards Achieving Privacy for Sensitive Narratives

Mohammad Shokri, Allison Bishop, Sarah Ita Levitan


Abstract
Evolving tools for narrative analysis present an opportunity to identify common structure in stories that are socially important to tell, such as stories of survival from domestic abuse. A greater structural understanding of such stories could lead to stronger protections against de-anonymization, as well as future tools to help survivors navigate the complex trade-offs inherent in trying to tell their stories safely. In this work we explore narrative patterns within a small set of domestic violence stories, identifying many similarities. We then propose a method to assess the safety of sharing a story based on a distance feature vector.
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2024.wnu-1.7
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Proceedings of the The 6th Workshop on Narrative Understanding
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Yash Kumar Lal, Elizabeth Clark, Mohit Iyyer, Snigdha Chaturvedi, Anneliese Brei, Faeze Brahman, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu
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WNU
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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47–54
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Mohammad Shokri, Allison Bishop, and Sarah Ita Levitan. 2024. Is It Safe to Tell Your Story? Towards Achieving Privacy for Sensitive Narratives. In Proceedings of the The 6th Workshop on Narrative Understanding, pages 47–54, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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