De-identification is not enough: a comparison between de-identified and synthetic clinical notes.

For sharing privacy-sensitive data, de-identification is commonly regarded as adequate for safeguarding privacy. Synthetic data is also being considered as a privacy-preserving alternative. Recent successes with numerical and tabular data generative models and the breakthroughs in large generative language models raise the question of whether synthetically generated clinical notes could be a viable alternative to real notes for research purposes.

A new approach to expert reviewer detection and product rating derivation from online experiential product reviews.

Consumer reviews have emerged as one of the most influential factors in a person's purchase behavior. The existing open-source approaches for detecting expert reviewers and determining product ratings suffer from limitations and are susceptible to manipulation. In this work, we addressed these limitations by developing two algorithms and evaluated them on three datasets from amazon.