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*EXTENDED DEADLINE*: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on Multilingual De-Identification of (Sensitive) Language Resources
To be held in conjunction with the 13th International Language Resources
and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2022)
20 June 2022, Le Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France
https://sites.google.com/vicomtech.org/multilingual-de-identification
EXTENDED Deadline for submission: 17 April 2022
*Description*
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR - Regulation (EU) 2016/679
of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016) ensures
the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of
personal data and on the free movement of such data. The GDPR outlines a
specific set of rules that protect citizens and user data and create
transparency in information sharing. GDPR is the strictest data privacy
regulation in the world, and considerable work is taking place to
develop techniques and deploy systems that help comply with this
regulation while rendering data accessible and, thus, usable for further
processing.
Different techniques are studied to guarantee such compliance, implying
different levels of sensitive content protection and with a short- or
long-term guarantee depending on whether we may have access to
additional related information. In this regard, we can read about work
on anonymization, de-identification and pseudonymization. While
anonymization implies a zero re-identification risk, which is extremely
difficult to secure, de-identification and pseudonymization represent an
attainable target under the GDPR, given that this regulation defines
pseudonymization as “the processing of personal data in such a manner
that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data
subject without the use of additional information, provided that such
additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical
and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not
attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.”
Bearing this context in mind, multilingual approaches and kits for
(sensitive) language resources de-identification may provide the means
to share language data while also protecting private or sensitive data
by spotting then deleting, obfuscating, pseudonymizing or encrypting
person identifying information.
De-identification is typically performed for the purpose of protecting
an individual’s private activities while maintaining the usefulness of
the gathered data for research and development purposes. This workshop
aims at discussing the various approaches to effective and reliable text
de-identification, focusing on some sensitive domains such as the
medical and legal domains, but not only.
Based on these premises a consensus emerges that shows a clear situation
and needs:
1. Tools for the multilingual de-identification of (sensitive)
language resources are becoming essential to ensure that such resources
can be shared.
2. De-identification is crucial to ensure that all legal & ethical
considerations are taken into account during the production/repurposing
phases but also that the quality/nature of the de-identified data sets
remains appropriate to conduct research activities.
3. European Public Administrations need personal data processing
tools to handle the extremely large amounts of data they manage.
4. Europe’s multilingual context will benefit from approaches and
tools that can support the European Digital Market in their multilingual
data exchanges.
*Workshop Objectives and Topics of Interest*
This workshop is organised by members of the MAPA project, funded by the
EU Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) program (https://mapa-project.eu/).
This project has developed a toolkit for the de-identification of texts
in the medical and legal fields which addresses all EU official
languages. It has followed a BERT-based Named Entity Recognition
approach for personal information identification. A wide range of topics
have been considered and are hot topics open for discussion to all
participants of this workshop. Among them, we have the following:
1. Sensitive personal information, domains and services that require
de-identification
2. Corpora annotation and/or creation
3. Annotation guidelines and platforms
4. De-identification tools, data and/or applications
5. De-identification and minority languages
6. Multi-domain and/or multilingual processing
7. NLP techniques and tools used for de-identification
8. Multimodal de-identification
9. Validation and benchmarking of de-identified resources
10. Evaluation of de-identification tools and applications
11. Evaluation protocols: how to evaluate, metrics, approaches, data,
experiences
12. Best practices
13. Approaches, activities and systems addressing “anonymization” are
also welcome to
share their experience.
14. Any other topic related to de-identification
This workshop will also be a good forum to discuss the possibility to
design and initiate a new (annual) Challenge (evaluation campaign) on
this important topic.
We invite submissions for full papers and system demonstrations that
address these questions and other related issues relevant to the workshop.
*Workshop Programme and Audience Addressed*
This full-day workshop aims at bringing together technology oriented
working groups as well as institutions requiring de-identification
support that can present their cases. Being de-identification a
multi-topic and multi-problem technique, the workshop aims to get
researchers, developers and groups needing their services together to
discuss approaches, techniques, capabilities and potential collaborations.
*Organising Committee*
- Victoria Arranz (ELDA/ELRA, France)
- Montse Cuadros (Vicomtech, Spain)
- Aitor Garcia Pablos (Vicomtech, Spain)
- Cyril Grouin (Université Paris Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France)
- Manuel Herranz (Pangeanic, Spain)
*Programme Committee*
- Khalid Choukri (ELDA/ELRA, France)
- Hercules Dalianis (Stockholm University, Sweden)
- Amando Estela (Pangeanic, Spain)
- Thierry Etchegoyhen (Vicomtech, Spain)
- Albert Gatt (Malta University, Malta)
- Lucie Gianola (Université Paris Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France)
- Ona de Gibert (BSC, Spain)
- Marwa Hadj Salah (ELDA/ELRA, France)
- Udo Hahn (University of Jena, Germany)
- Thomas Kleinbauer (COMPRISE project)
- Maite Melero (BSC, Spain)
- Mickaël Rigault (ELDA/ELRA, France)
- Patrick Paroubek (Université Paris Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France)
- Naiara Perez (Vicomtech, Spain)
- Stelios Piperidis (Athena Research & Innovation Center, Greece)
- Prokopis Prokopidis (Athena Research & Innovation Center, Greece)
- Mike Rosner (Malta University, Malta)
- Roberts Rozis (TILDE, Latvia)
- Özlem Uzuner (George Mason University, USA)
- Emmanuel Vincent (Inria Nancy - Grand Est, France)
- Rinalds Vīksna (TILDE, Latvia)
- Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France)
*Important dates*
Submission of full papers: EXTENDED to Sunday 17 April 2022
Notification of acceptance of papers and demonstrations: Tuesday 10 May 2022
Submission of camera-ready version: 23 May 2022
Workshop: Monday 20 June 2022
*Submission*
Authors should use the START system
(https://www.softconf.com/lrec2022/MDLR/) and follow the LREC author’s
kit (https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2022/authors-kit/) for
submitting their papers (the templates are provided on this page) .
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings along with
the LREC main conference (https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/en/)
Proceedings by ELRA.
For further queries, please contact Victoria Arranz at arr...@elda.org.
