MasKIT – Anonymization and Pseudonymization of Czech Legal Texts

Jiří Mírovský; Tereza Novotná; Barbora Hladká

doi:10.2478/jazcas-2025-0017

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MasKIT – Anonymization and Pseudonymization of Czech Legal Texts

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

Volume 76 (2025): Issue 1 (June 2025)

By: Jiří Mírovský , Tereza Novotná and Barbora Hladká

Open Access

|Nov 2025

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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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2025-0017 | Journal eISSN: 1338-4287 (formerly 0021-5597) | Journal ISSN: 0021-5597

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Language: English

Page range: 192 - 199

Published on: Nov 27, 2025

Published by: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 3 issues per year

Keywords:

tool,

Related subjects:

Linguistics and semiotics,

Theoretical frameworks and disciplines,

Linguistics, other

© 2025 Jiří Mírovský, Tereza Novotná, Barbora Hladká, published by Slovak Academy of Sciences, Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics
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