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PIIvot: A Lightweight NLP Anonymization Framework for Question-Anchored Tutoring Dialogues

Matthew Zent, Digory Smith, Simon Woodhead

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.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{emnlp2025_piivotalightweig,
  title = {PIIvot: A Lightweight NLP Anonymization Framework for Question-Anchored Tutoring Dialogues},
  author = {Matthew Zent and Digory Smith and Simon Woodhead},
  booktitle = {EMNLP 2025},
  year = {2025}
}