Identifying profanity in real time
AssigneeSkopic, Inc.
InventorsMurali P. Pidathala, Ravindra B. Gudapati, Suneel Nulu
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Abstract
A computer implemented method and system for detecting a profanity level of a 140-character textual post generated by a user within one or more communities includes: identifying all words present in the 140-character textual post; assigning a weight to each identified word based on whether or not each identified word occurs in one or more databases; calculating a net profanity factor for each identified word based on the assigned weight; calculating a sum of net profanity factors of all the identified words; and publishing or not publishing the 140-character textual post based on the sum of net profanity factors.
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A computer implemented method of detecting a profanity level of a not exceeding 140-character textual post generated by a user within one or more communities, comprising:
- identifying all words present in the 140-character textual post;
- assigning a weight to each identified word based on whether or not each identified word occurs in one or more databases;
- calculating a net profanity factor for each identified word based on the assigned weight;
- calculating a sum of net profanity factors of all the identified words;
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- publishing or not publishing the 140-character textual post based on the sum of net profanity factors.
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