IARIA 2026: Best Paper Award received
4 August 2026
Yeong Su Lee, Hendrik Bothe, and Michaela Geierhos have received a special honor: The IARIA Board of the 2026 IARIA Annual Congress on Frontiers in Science, Technology, Services, and Applications has awarded their paper the Best Paper Award. The entire team at the Data Science Chair extends its warmest congratulations on this outstanding achievement!
Their paper "Evaluating LLM-based Pseudonymization for Cross-Platform Identifiers" focuses on the pseudonymization of names and usernames in social media datasets. Since individuals often use identical or similar identifiers across different platforms, their profiles may be linked and potentially associated with real people. The presented approach uses a locally operated Large Language Model to replace these details with artificial identifiers. This is intended to make it more difficult to infer the original individuals while preserving selected linguistic and structural properties for subsequent analyses.
Source: IARIA Board
