Hi. Thank you for the links. I am looking for something that would function in a similar way to Yahoo's filter for it's message boards. Perhaps I should have used the term profanity instead of unacceptable language. I am not concerned about correcting sentence structure or poor grammar.
I realize screening profanity can be accomplished by simply looping over regular expressions from a database or dictionary to search the text to check against possibilities . I thought it possible that there may be something like this already in existence, perhaps already in a module since it is likely (despite how absurd) - that someone has developed a dictionary of profane word expressions I suspect. What's is perhaps more crazy, is that one has to consider including something like this in an application - but you have to conclude the Internet is what it is. Regards David From Yahoo: "The Profanity Filter allows you to control how you want to view messages with profanity in two ways. You can choose to view the messages with the profanity masked with italcized symbols (@$&% ), or you can have the messages containing profanity hidden entirely. You can also choose between a weak setting for exact word matches or a strong setting that will filter spelling variations." Well I know this thread is a On Sunday, October 2, 2005, at 10:45 PM, Nigel Rowe wrote: > David Pratt wrote: > >> Hi. Is anyone aware of any python based unacceptable language filter >> code to scan and detect bad language in text from uploads etc. >> >> Many thanks. >> David > > You might be able to adapt languagetool. > http://www.danielnaber.de/languagetool/features.html > > Later versions have been ported to Java, but the old python version of > languagetool is at http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/#r03 > > His thesis paper is at > http://www.danielnaber.de/languagetool/download/ > style_and_grammar_checker.pdf > > Mind you, given the poor language skills of many native english > speakers > (not to mention those for whom english is a second language) relying on > automated filters to enforce 'good' language seems a trifle extreme. > This > post for example would probably not pass. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
