Natural Language Processing: Find obscenities in English?

Question

Given a set of words tagged for part of speech, I want to find those that are obscenities in mainstream English. How might I do this? Should I just make a huge list, and check f

Answer 1

Use the morphy lemmatizer built into WordNet, and then determine whether the lemma is an obscenity. This will solve the problem of different verb forms, plurals, etc...