MasKIT – Anonymization and Pseudonymization of Czech Legal Texts

Mírovský, Jiří; Novotná, Tereza; Hladká, Barbora

doi:10.2478/jazcas-2025-0017

Abstract

MasKIT is a command-line tool, an on-line web application and a REST API service for anonymization and pseudonymization of Czech legal texts. Taking a plain text as input (e.g. a letter sent by a legal authority to a citizen), it runs external services for dependency parsing and named entity recognition and then via a rule-based approach identifies and replaces sensitive information in the text.

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MasKIT – Anonymization and Pseudonymization of Czech Legal Texts

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