NLP-enhanced Content Filtering Within the POESIA Project

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004)

Abstract

This paper introduces the POESIA internet filtering system, which is open-source, and which combines standard filtering methods, such as positive/negative URL lists, with more advanced techniques, such as image processing and NLP-enhanced text filtering. The description here focusses on components providing textual content filtering for three European languages (English, Italian and Spanish), employing NLP methods to enhance performance. We address also the acquisition of language data needed to develop these filters, and the evaluation of the system and its components.