Profanities

Profanities are logged under the abuse section, with the type attribute set to profanity.

Severity Levels

The severity levels are as following:

• low - very mild profanities that are often not considered profanities
• medium - the bulk of profanities
• high - highly inappropriate profanities
• extreme - usually "absolutely unacceptable" profanities (e.g. F-word in English or the mat category in Slavic languages)

Attempts to obfuscate (e.g. with asterisks) does not impact the severity.

Relevant Tags

The following tags are often associated with the profanity type:

• sex - profanities related to sexual activities or organs

Example

Request:

{
  "language":"en",
  "content":"i hate this fu*r",
  "settings": 
  {
    "snippets":true, "explain":true
  }
}

Response:

{
	"text": "i hate this fu*r",
	"abuse": [
		{
			"sentence_index": 0,
			"offset": 12,
			"length": 4,
			"text": "fu*r",
			"type": "profanity",
			"severity": "extreme",
			"tags": [
				"sex"
			]
		}
	]
}