PIIvot: A Lightweight NLP Anonymization Framework for Question-Anchored Tutoring Dialogues (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Understanding and improving affective learning strategies continues to be one of computing's primary contributions to education research. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for PII anonymization that leverages knowledge of the data context to simplify the PI I detection problem. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework simplifies the detection problem by leveraging knowledge of the data context. |
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