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                                      Docs / Moderation / Text Moderation / Text Moderation categories

                                      Text Moderation categories

                                      Here is the list of public text analysis and text moderation models that you can use.

                                      Models for Image and Video Recognition are available here.

                                      Text classification

                                      INTRO

                                      ML Moderation models

                                      Detect messages containing sexual content, hate, violence, insults or toxic content

                                      Rule-based moderation

                                      INTRO

                                      Rule-based Moderation

                                      Advanced rules and pattern-matching to detect unwanted content

                                      GUIDE

                                      Profanity Detection

                                      Detect hate, toxic, obscene or sexual language

                                      GUIDE

                                      Personal Information

                                      Detect personally identifiable information (PII): email addresses, phone numbers and more

                                      GUIDE

                                      URL and Link Moderation

                                      Determine if a domain name or link is unsafe, or unwanted

                                      GUIDE

                                      Language Detection

                                      Automatically detect the language of a given text or user message

                                      GUIDE

                                      Misleading Usernames

                                      Prevent users from choosing misleading usernames

                                      GUIDE

                                      Custom (dis)allow lists

                                      Create custom allow or disallow lists for custom needs

                                      GUIDE

                                      Extremism detection

                                      Detects names, slogans and expressions related to extremist ideologies

                                      GUIDE

                                      Drug detection

                                      Detects names and words related to recreational drugs

                                      GUIDE

                                      Weapon detection

                                      Detects weapon-related names and terms

                                      GUIDE

                                      Medical drug detection

                                      Detects words and expressions related to medical drugs

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