I've spent hours searching the web for a solutions, but so far I haven't 
found one.  I have found many papers on how you can't publish a list of bad 
words without getting in trouble for publishing bad words in the UK (not 
helpful and of questionable accuracy) and how any list of bad words has to 
include at a minimum a compendium of bad words from the 22 most frequently 
spoken languages (but doesn't list the languages or the words).  Thus, I'm 
asking the HP3000-L for input.

How did I get into this?  Since I'm still unemployed, I'm doing a little 
bit of photography and web site work in addition to job hunting.

In a web site project I'm working on, I need to "censor" posts that users 
make.  Specifically, I need to remove "obscene, vulgar, offensive, abusive, 
hateful, harassing, profane, sexually oriented, and threatening" words, 
replacing each occurrence with the very long phrase "{text deleted by 
moderator}".

Obviously, my first question was "Do you have a list of the words you want 
removed?  Of course the answer was "no." (LOL, what was I thinking, asking 
such a question!)

Which (of course) led to my second question "but you will provide the list, 
correct?"  Of course the answer to that question was also "no."

My next question was "Do you have a list of words that people have 
complained about?"  Turned out they did, but that only served to point out 
another problem - many of the "words" are only offensive when used in a 
certain context.

Example.
    "Next, Bob asked Dick about the 69 exception reports.  Dick
    replied that all were related to a robotics problem - a
    hydraulic line feeding a robotic arm blew, shutting down
    production."
became:
    "Next, Bob asked {text deleted by moderator} about the
    {text deleted by moderator} exception reports.  {text deleted
    by moderator} replied that all were related to a robotics
    problem - a hydraulic line feeding a robotic arm {text
    deleted by moderator}, shutting down production."

Okay, so maybe it is easier to get a chuckle out of the "censored" 
text.  Still, the context problem remains.

Thus, I'm looking for:
-- a list of bad words
-- some context sensitive software (that runs on Linux) that:
    -- ALWAYS deletes words on list 1
    -- will ONLY delete words on list 2 if they are in an
       offensive context.
-- any info on similar "projects" (and their solutions) you are
    aware of.

Thanks in advance!

John
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