Efficient filtering of adult content using textual information
This addresses the need to shield children from adult content on the web, but appears incremental as it focuses on textual filtering without novel breakthroughs.
The paper tackles the problem of filtering adult content from web pages to protect children, proposing a method that builds a safe index for search engines using only textual information from the page and URL.
Nowadays adult content represents a non negligible proportion of the Web content. It is of the utmost importance to protect children from this content. Search engines, as an entry point for Web navigation are ideally placed to deal with this issue. In this paper, we propose a method that builds a safe index i.e. adult-content free for search engines. This method is based on a filter that uses only textual information from the web page and the associated URL.