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Profanity is often prevalent in user generated content (like comments). Websites that do not want to display such profane comments/content currently employ masking as a solution to get rid of profanity. Masking replaces the profanity in the content with characters like ####. The masked content still though conveys the existence of profanity to the user. Humans have built up a great language model to infer missing words. Try it yourself – it should be easy for you to guess a bunch of profanity words for the following sentence:

What the ####!

My hack (Bleep) for the Yahoo! Spring ’11 Hackday is yet another natural language hack that tries to remove the profanity from a comment without altering the semantics of the content. In brief, removing the profanity word from the content makes the parse tree less probable. The algorithm tries to alter this improbable parse tree to find the best local parse tree.

Following are some corrections suggested by Bleep:






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