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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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