An approach for offensive text detection and prevention in Social Networks
Shashank H. Yadav, Pratik Madhukar Manwatkar · 2015
Social Network has become a place where people from every corner of the world has established a virtual civilization. In this virtual community, people used to share their views, express their feelings, photos, videos, blogs, etc. Social Networking Sites like Facebook, Twitters, etc. has given a platform to share innumerable contents with just a click of a button. However, there is no restriction applied by them for the uploaded content. These uploaded content may contains abusive words, explicit images which may be unsuitable for social platforms. As such there is no defined mechanism for restricting offensive contents from publishing on social sites. To solve this problem we have used our proposed approach. In our approach we are developing a social network prototype for implementing our approach for automatic filtering of offensive content in social network. Many popular social networking sites today don't have proper mechanism for restricting offensive contents. They use reporting methods in which user report if the content is abuse. This requires substantial human efforts and time. In this paper, we applied pattern matching algorithm for offensive keyword detection from social networking comments and prevent it from publishing on social platform. Apart from conventional method of reporting abusive contents by users our approach does not requires any human intervention and thus restrict offensive words by detecting and preventing it automatically.