Tootfinder

A Survey on Current Trends and Recent Advances in Text Anonymization
Tobias Deu{\ss}er, Lorenz Sparrenberg, Armin Berger, Max Hahnb\"uck, Christian Bauckhage, Rafet Sifa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21587

A Survey on Current Trends and Recent Advances in Text Anonymization
The proliferation of textual data containing sensitive personal information across various domains requires robust anonymization techniques to protect privacy and comply with regulations, while preserving data usability for diverse and crucial downstream tasks. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of current trends and recent advances in text anonymization techniques. We begin by discussing foundational approaches, primarily centered on Named Entity Recognition, before examining the tr…

A three-judge panel upheld a civil contempt ruling against Catherine Herridge for refusing to reveal her source for Fox News stories on a FBI-targeted scientist (Ryan Knappenberger/Courthouse News Service)
https://courthousenews.com/dc-circuit-

Got all of my #BandcampFriday purchases in, with 1hr left to spare! 😅
✨ My highlights:
kompany by mote booker, smino & phoelix: https://montebooker.bandcamp.com/track/…

The FBI is searching the Maryland home and Washington office of
John Bolton, who served in President Donald Trump’s first administration as national security adviser
but later became critical of the president,
as part of an investigation into the handling of classified information.
Bolton was not detained and has not been charged with any crimes

FBI searches home of ex-Trump national security adviser Bolton
The FBI is searching the Maryland home and Washington office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton as part of an investigation into the handling of classified information. That's according to a person familiar with the matter Friday. The person was not authorized to discuss the investigation by name and spoke on the condition of anonymity. The person says Bolton was not detained and has not been charged with any crimes. FBI Director Kash Patel says cryptically online, “NO ONE is a…

A Simple Characterization of Qualified Majority Voting Rules
H\'ector Hermida-Rivera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19823 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19823

A Simple Characterization of Qualified Majority Voting Rules
This note characterizes every qualified majority voting rule with a quota $q$ strictly greater than half of the voter set in environments with just two alternatives through anonymity, responsiveness, and $q$-neutrality. Crucially, the latter imposes independence of the labels of the alternatives only for all preference profiles in which some alternative is strictly top-ranked by at least $q$ voters. Thus, this note generalizes May's (1952, Theorem, p.~682) well-known axiomatic characterization …

“Service academies to accept conservative alternative to SAT and ACT”
And it is called the CLT?
They’ll have to find it first.
Hey oh!
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/15/military-academies-clt-standardized-test-00564290…

An Experimental Framework to Study Turbulence Induced Particle Mobilization
Vaishak Thiruvenkitam, Robert H Bryan II, Zheng Zhang, Ebenezer P Gnanamanickam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18557

An Experimental Framework to Study Turbulence Induced Particle Mobilization
An experimental framework was developed to study the initiation of particle mobilization in a laboratory setting. Large and heavy particles mobilized by a turbulent, gaseous carrier-phase were considered. An airfoil oscillated in the free-stream, generating a tonal free-stream disturbance that perturbed a turbulent boundary layer. The flow developing behind this forced flow was characterized using hot-wire anemometry and particle image velocimetry (PIV). Downstream of the oscillating airfoil me…

Content Anonymization for Privacy in Long-form Audio
Cristina Aggazzotti, Ashi Garg, Zexin Cai, Nicholas Andrews
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12780 https://a…

Content Anonymization for Privacy in Long-form Audio
Voice anonymization techniques have been found to successfully obscure a speaker's acoustic identity in short, isolated utterances in benchmarks such as the VoicePrivacy Challenge. In practice, however, utterances seldom occur in isolation: long-form audio is commonplace in domains such as interviews, phone calls, and meetings. In these cases, many utterances from the same speaker are available, which pose a significantly greater privacy risk: given multiple utterances from the same speaker, an…

Making Characters Count. A Computational Approach to Scribal Profiling in 14th-Century Middle Dutch Manuscripts from the Carthusian Monastery of Herne
Caroline Vandyck, Wouter Haverals, Mike Kestemont
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00067

Making Characters Count. A Computational Approach to Scribal Profiling in 14th-Century Middle Dutch Manuscripts from the Carthusian Monastery of Herne
The Carthusian monastery of Herne was exceptionally prolific in producing high-quality manuscripts during the late 14th century. Although the scribes remain anonymous, previous research has distinguished thirteen different scribal hands based on paleography and codicology. In this study, we revisit this hypothesis through the lens of linguistic characteristics of the texts, using computational methods from the field of scribal profiling. Using a newly created corpus of diplomatic and HTR-based …