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Tracing Text Provenance via Context-Aware Lexical Substitution
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Measured effects reported in the paper
| What was changed | Where | Measured | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| rank BERT-generated lexical substitutes using inference-based semantic relatedness | BERT lexical substitution · SWORDS | F^10: 31.6 -> 36.7 (Lenient); 16.8 -> 18.3 (Strict) | Helped |
| rank BERT-generated lexical substitutes using inference-based semantic relatedness | BERT lexical substitution · SWORDS | F_c^10: 53.3 -> 56.1 (Lenient); 26.1 -> 28.7 (Strict) | Helped |
| use context-aware lexical substitution with synchronicity and substitutability tests | Text watermarking · Watermarking datasets | SR: Proposed SR: 0.9844, 0.9852, 0.9854, 0.9864, 0.9850, 0.9763; baseline results vary by dataset | Helped |
| use context-aware lexical substitution with synchronicity and substitutability tests | Text watermarking · Human evaluation | meaning-preservation rating: 2.8\pm1.3, 2.4\pm1.0, 2.0\pm1.2 -> 4.5 \pm0.6 | Helped |
| remove the synchronicity test (ablation) | Sequence incremental watermarking · Watermark extraction | successful watermark extraction | Hurt |
| remove the substitutability test (ablation) | Sequence incremental watermarking · Watermark extraction | correct word location | Hurt |
| increase minimum substitution distance f from 1 to 2 (ablation) | Sequence incremental watermarking · Watermarking | payload (bpw): 0.091 -> 0.044 | Hurt |
| increase minimum substitution distance f from 1 to 3 (ablation) | Sequence incremental watermarking · Watermarking | payload (bpw): 0.091 -> 0.031 | Hurt |
| increase minimum substitution distance f from 1 to 3 (ablation) | Sequence incremental watermarking · Watermarking | SR: 0.983 -> 0.985 | No clear effect |
| increase minimum substitution distance f from 1 to 3 (ablation) | Sequence incremental watermarking · Watermarking | SS: 0.988 -> 0.995 | No clear effect |
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