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New pipeline automates security and privacy taxonomy from 600K app reviews

Researchers have developed TaxoScale, a new pipeline designed to automatically generate taxonomies of security and privacy concerns from mobile app reviews. This method addresses the scalability challenge faced by existing LLM and clustering techniques, which are typically limited to smaller datasets. TaxoScale processes a corpus of over 600,000 app reviews, extending expert-defined taxonomies through recursive hierarchical clustering and LLM-based naming to discover novel branches and outperform baseline methods. AI

IMPACT This research could enable more efficient and scalable identification of emerging security and privacy risks within software ecosystems.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new research paper detailing a novel algorithm and pipeline for automated taxonomy generation from a large dataset.

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New pipeline automates security and privacy taxonomy from 600K app reviews

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Moghis Fereidouni, Vinaik Chhetri, Umar Farooq, A. B. Siddique ·

    Security and Privacy Taxonomy Generation from Mobile App Reviews

    arXiv:2608.09049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile app reviews are a rich, continuously renewing source of how users experience privacy and security, yet existing taxonomies of these concerns are hand-crafted and cannot keep pace with the evolving nature of the data. Automati…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Security and Privacy Taxonomy Generation from Mobile App Reviews

    Mobile app reviews are a rich, continuously renewing source of how users experience privacy and security, yet existing taxonomies of these concerns are hand-crafted and cannot keep pace with the evolving nature of the data. Automating taxonomy construction is the natural response…