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title = "{PII}vot: A Lightweight {NLP} Anonymization Framework for Question-Anchored Tutoring Dialogues",
author = "Zent, Matthew and
Smith, Digory and
Woodhead, Simon",
editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos and
Chakraborty, Tanmoy and
Rose, Carolyn and
Peng, Violet",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = nov,
year = "2025",
address = "Suzhou, China",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1397/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1397",
pages = "27479--27488",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6",
abstract = "Personally identifiable information (PII) anonymization is a high-stakes task that poses a barrier to many open-science data sharing initiatives. While PII identification has made large strides in recent years, in practice, error thresholds and the recall/precision trade-off still limit the uptake of these anonymization pipelines. We present PIIvot, a lighter-weight framework for PII anonymization that leverages knowledge of the data context to simplify the PII detection problem. To demonstrate its effectiveness, we also contribute QATD{\_}2k, the largest open-source real-world tutoring dataset of its kind, to support the demand for quality educational dialogue data."
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%A Woodhead, Simon
%Y Christodoulopoulos, Christos
%Y Chakraborty, Tanmoy
%Y Rose, Carolyn
%Y Peng, Violet
%S Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
%D 2025
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Suzhou, China
%@ 979-8-89176-332-6
%F zent-etal-2025-piivot
%X Personally identifiable information (PII) anonymization is a high-stakes task that poses a barrier to many open-science data sharing initiatives. While PII identification has made large strides in recent years, in practice, error thresholds and the recall/precision trade-off still limit the uptake of these anonymization pipelines. We present PIIvot, a lighter-weight framework for PII anonymization that leverages knowledge of the data context to simplify the PII detection problem. To demonstrate its effectiveness, we also contribute QATD_2k, the largest open-source real-world tutoring dataset of its kind, to support the demand for quality educational dialogue data.
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1397/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.1397
%P 27479-27488
Markdown (Informal)
[PIIvot: A Lightweight NLP Anonymization Framework for Question-Anchored Tutoring Dialogues](https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.1397/) (Zent et al., EMNLP 2025)
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