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Obfuscating The Topical Intention In Enterprise Text Search, Hwee Hwa Pang, Xiaokui Xiao, Jialie Shen
Obfuscating The Topical Intention In Enterprise Text Search, Hwee Hwa Pang, Xiaokui Xiao, Jialie Shen
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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 …