Exploring the Privacy-Preserving Properties of Word Embeddings: Algorithmic Validation Study

Mohamed Abdalla   ^{1, 2, 3} , BSc, MSc ;   Moustafa Abdalla   ^{4, 5, 6} , BSc, DPhil ;   Graeme Hirst   ^{1, 2} , BSc, PhD ;   Frank Rudzicz   ^{1, 2, 7, 8} , BSc, MSc, PhD

¹ Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

² The Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁴ Deptartment of Statistics, Computational Statistics & Machine Learning Group, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

⁵ Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Dept of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

⁶ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

⁷ International Centre for Surgical Safety, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁸ Surgical Safety Technologies Inc, Toronto, ON, Canada