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Obfuscating the Topical Intention in Enterprise Text Search
ICDE 2012: IEEE 28th International Conference on Data Engineering, Arlington Virginia, 1-5 April: Proceedings
  • Hwee Hwa PANG, Singapore Management University
  • Xiaokui XIAO, Nanyang Technological University
  • Jialie SHEN, Singapore Management University
Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
4-2012
Abstract

The text search queries in an enterprise can reveal the users' topic of interest, and in turn confidential staff or business information. To safeguard the enterprise from consequences arising from a disclosure of the query traces, it is desirable to obfuscate the true user intention from the search engine, without requiring it to be re-engineered. In this paper, we advocate a unique approach to profile the topics that are relevant to the user intention. Based on this approach, we introduce an (ε 1, ε 2)-privacy model that allows a user to stipulate that topics relevant to her intention at ε 1 level should appear to any adversary to be innocuous at ε 2 level. We then present a Top Priv algorithm to achieve the customized (ε 1, ε 2)-privacy requirement of individual users through injecting automatically formulated fake queries. The advantages of Top Priv over existing techniques are confirmed through benchmark queries on a real corpus, with experiment settings fashioned after an enterprise search application.

Keywords
  • Business information,
  • Enterprise searches,
  • Privacy models,
  • Privacy requirements,
  • Text search,
  • User intention
ISBN
9781467300421
Identifier
10.1109/ICDE.2012.43
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
City or Country
Los Alamitos, CA
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICDE.2012.43
Citation Information
Hwee Hwa PANG, Xiaokui XIAO and Jialie SHEN. "Obfuscating the Topical Intention in Enterprise Text Search" ICDE 2012: IEEE 28th International Conference on Data Engineering, Arlington Virginia, 1-5 April: Proceedings (2012) p. 1168 - 1179
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hweehwa-pang/64/