Menel Mahamdi


2024

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Cloaked Classifiers: Pseudonymization Strategies on Sensitive Classification Tasks
Arij Riabi | Menel Mahamdi | Virginie Mouilleron | Djamé Seddah
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing

Protecting privacy is essential when sharing data, particularly in the case of an online radicalization dataset that may contain personal information. In this paper, we explore the balance between preserving data usefulness and ensuring robust privacy safeguards, since regulations like the European GDPR shape how personal information must be handled. We share our method for manually pseudonymizing a multilingual radicalization dataset, ensuring performance comparable to the original data. Furthermore, we highlight the importance of establishing comprehensive guidelines for processing sensitive NLP data by sharing our complete pseudonymization process, our guidelines, the challenges we encountered as well as the resulting dataset.

2023

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Enriching the NArabizi Treebank: A Multifaceted Approach to Supporting an Under-Resourced Language
Arij Riabi | Menel Mahamdi | Djamé Seddah
Proceedings of the 17th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVII)

In this paper we address the scarcity of annotated data for NArabizi, a Romanized form of North African Arabic used mostly on social media, which poses challenges for Natural Language Processing (NLP). We introduce an enriched version of NArabizi Treebank (Seddah et al., 2020) with three main contributions: the addition of two novel annotation layers (named entity recognition and offensive language detection) and a re-annotation of the tokenization, morpho-syntactic and syntactic layers that ensure annotation consistency. Our experimental results, using different tokenization schemes, showcase the value of our contributions and highlight the impact of working with non-gold tokenization for NER and dependency parsing. To facilitate future research, we make these annotations publicly available. Our enhanced NArabizi Treebank paves the way for creating sophisticated language models and NLP tools for this under-represented language.