OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
The main objectives of the SIFT project are the following:

· To offer European Internet users a more reliable means of filtering web content by implementing a platform which will integrate filtering based on self-labelling and machine-generated labels with the widest possible range of alternative filtering technologies. The platform will be based on the ICRA model and current available technologies to work on both stand alone PCs and networks.

· To provide content analysis filters for each of the nudity and sexual content descriptors in the ICRA matrix. The filters will be produced using NCSR machine learning technology to classify content based on examples. These will analyse content in (at least) English, French and German but the platform itself will not be restricted to these languages. Classification will generate "pseudo-labels" that might augment the ICRA database and will encourage self-labelling.

· To demonstrate the ability of the Integration Platform to work with other types of filters by using OPTENET's filtering solution, which works in six European languages.

· To make available an interface through which other filtering solutions can be configured to work with the Platform.