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by area. There is probably a big difference in accuracy between pornography and the other objectionable areas. There is also a trade-off between false positives and false negatives. The extent to which advanced techniques make a difference depends on where in the trade-off you start out. If I had to give a number, I would expect a 20 to 30 percent improvement in accuracy over the bag-of-words model—if you want to let all good content through (if you do not want over-blocking).
