Natural Language Processing: Find obscenities in English?

Question

Given a set of words tagged for part of speech, I want to find those that are obscenities in mainstream English. How might I do this? Should I just make a huge list, and check f

Answer 1

There are webservices that do this kind of thing in English.

I'm sure there are others, but I've used WebPurify in a project for precisely this reason before.