CIABATTA: Running automatic deidentification script on Mac OS
Channel: Corpus & Repository of Writing
Date: 2021-02-11

In this video we will walk you through running a deidentification script in Python on Mac OS. The purpose of this script is to remove proper names that occur before the body of the text itself because that is where most names are present. To find and remove these names and some other identifying information (e.g. emails, student ids), we use regular expressions that match strings that look like proper names, emails, student ids, etc. as the only content on the line.

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