Text Classification for Web Filtering

This talk deals with the application of text classification techniques to Web filtering, with particular emphasis on filtering unsuitable content such as pornographic or violent content. The talk introduces text classification, its tools, techniques, and applications, and then discusses how filtering unsuitable Web content can be seen as the intersection of three different applications: Web page classification, filtering, and detection unsuitable content. The characteristics of these three applications are briefly described, together with their practical consequences.