Lingyun Xiang1,2, Yan Li2, Wei Hao3,*, Peng Yang4, Xiaobo Shen5
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.55, No.3, pp. 541-559, 2018, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2018.03510
Abstract For protecting the copyright of a text and recovering its original content harmlessly, this paper proposes a novel reversible natural language watermarking method that combines arithmetic coding and synonym substitution operations. By analyzing relative frequencies of synonymous words, synonyms employed for carrying payload are quantized into an unbalanced and redundant binary sequence. The quantized binary sequence is compressed by adaptive binary arithmetic coding losslessly to provide a spare for accommodating additional data. Then, the compressed data appended with the watermark are embedded into the cover text via synonym substitutions in an invertible manner. On the More >