C-sanitized: A privacy model for document redaction and sanitization

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 148-163

  Sánchez, David ^a   Batet, Montserrat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

knowledge; privacy; semantics

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; SEMANTICS;

DATA SEMANTICS; DOCUMENT CONTENTS; DOCUMENT REDACTION; EMPIRICAL TEST; KNOWLEDGE; PRIVACY MODELS; PRIVACY THREATS; PROTECTION MEASURES;

DATA PRIVACY;

HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LAW; MODEL; PRIVACY; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84975078571     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23363     Document Type: Article

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