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Toxic interactions during code reviews can undermine teamwork and hinder productivity in software engineering (SE) teams. While prior studies explore toxicity detection and empirical investigation, they lack real-time detoxification tools…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-17 MD Awsaf Alam Anindya , Showvik Biswas , Anindya Iqbal , Jaydeb Sarker , Amiangshu Bosu

Toxic conversations during software development interactions may have serious repercussions on a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) development project. For example, victims of toxic conversations may become afraid to express themselves,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Jaydeb Sarker , Asif Kamal Turzo , Ming Dong , Amiangshu Bosu

Background: The existence of toxic conversations in open-source platforms can degrade relationships among software developers and may negatively impact software product quality. To help mitigate this, some initial work has been done to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Jaydeb Saker , Sayma Sultana , Steven R. Wilson , Amiangshu Bosu

In an era of rapidly evolving internet technology, the surge in multimodal content, including videos, has expanded the horizons of online communication. However, the detection of toxic content in this diverse landscape, particularly in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Krishanu Maity , A. S. Poornash , Sriparna Saha , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Effective toxic content detection relies heavily on high-quality and diverse data, which serve as the foundation for robust content moderation models. Synthetic data has become a common approach for training models across various NLP tasks.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zheng Hui , Zhaoxiao Guo , Hang Zhao , Juanyong Duan , Lin Ai , Yinheng Li , Julia Hirschberg , Congrui Huang

The widespread dissemination of toxic content on social media poses a serious threat to both online environments and public discourse, highlighting the urgent need for detoxification methods that effectively remove toxicity while preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jing Yu , Yibo Zhao , Jiapeng Zhu , Wenming Shao , Bo Pang , Zhao Zhang , Xiang Li

Detecting toxic content using language models is crucial yet challenging. While substantial progress has been made in English, toxicity detection in French remains underdeveloped, primarily due to the lack of culturally relevant,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Axel Delaval , Shujian Yang , Haicheng Wang , Han Qiu , Jialiang Lu

Toxicity on GitHub can severely impact Open Source Software (OSS) development communities. To mitigate such behavior, a better understanding of its nature and how various measurable characteristics of project contexts and participants are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Jaydeb Sarker , Asif Kamal Turzo , Amiangshu Bosu

Studies have shown that toxic behavior can cause contributors to leave, and hinder newcomers' (especially from underrepresented communities) participation in Open Source Software (OSS) projects. Thus, detection of toxic language plays a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ramtin Ehsani , Rezvaneh Rezapour , Preetha Chatterjee

The detection and identification of toxic comments are conducive to creating a civilized and harmonious Internet environment. In this experiment, we collected various data sets related to toxic comments. Because of the characteristics of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Zhichang Wang , Qipeng Zhu

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly prevalent in global applications, ensuring that they are toxicity-free across diverse linguistic contexts remains a critical challenge. We explore "Cross-lingual Detoxification", a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Himanshu Beniwal , Youngwoo Kim , Maarten Sap , Soham Dan , Thomas Hartvigsen

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit impressive language capabilities but remain vulnerable to malicious prompts and jailbreaking attacks. Existing knowledge editing methods for LLM detoxification face two major challenges. First, they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yifan Lu , Jing Li , Yigeng Zhou , Yihui Zhang , Wenya Wang , Xiucheng Li , Meishan Zhang , Fangming Liu , Jun Yu , Min Zhang

The increment of toxic comments on online space is causing tremendous effects on other vulnerable users. For this reason, considerable efforts are made to deal with this, and SemEval-2021 Task 5: Toxic Spans Detection is one of those. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Phu Gia Hoang , Luan Thanh Nguyen , Kiet Van Nguyen

Fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment is crucial for the sustained progress of open source development. However, the prevalence of negative discourse, often manifested as toxic comments, poses significant challenges to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Shyamal Mishra , Preetha Chatterjee

The proliferation of online toxic speech is a pertinent problem posing threats to demographic groups. While explicit toxic speech contains offensive lexical signals, implicit one consists of coded or indirect language. Therefore, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Nhat M. Hoang , Xuan Long Do , Duc Anh Do , Duc Anh Vu , Luu Anh Tuan

Open-source large language models are becoming increasingly available and popular among researchers and practitioners. While significant progress has been made on open-weight models, open training data is a practice yet to be adopted by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Catherine Arnett , Eliot Jones , Ivan P. Yamshchikov , Pierre-Carl Langlais

Transformer-based language models are able to generate fluent text and be efficiently adapted across various natural language generation tasks. However, language models that are pretrained on large unlabeled web text corpora have been shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Farshid Faal , Ketra Schmitt , Jia Yuan Yu

Existing detoxification methods for large language models mainly focus on post-training stage or inference time, while few tackle the source of toxicity, namely, the dataset itself. Such training-based or controllable decoding approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Wei Shao , Yihang Wang , Gaoyu Zhu , Ziqiang Cheng , Lei Yu , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

As social-media platforms emerge and evolve faster than the regulations meant to oversee them, automated detoxification might serve as a timely tool for moderators to enforce safe discourse at scale. We here describe our submission to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Trung Duc Anh Dang , Ferdinando Pio D'Elia

Background: Leaking sensitive information - such as API keys, tokens, and credentials - in source code remains a persistent security threat. Traditional regex and entropy-based tools often generate high false positives due to limited…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Md Nafiu Rahman , Sadif Ahmed , Zahin Wahab , S M Sohan , Rifat Shahriyar
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