Redefining Toxicity: An Objective and Context-Aware Approach for Stress-Level-Based Detection

The fundamental problem of toxicity detection lies in the fact that the term "toxicity" is ill-defined. Such uncertainty causes researchers to rely on subjective and vague data during model training, which leads to non-robust and inaccurate results, following the 'garbage in - garbage out' paradigm. This study introduces a novel, objective, and context-aware framework for toxicity detection, leveraging stress levels as a key determinant of toxicity. We propose new definition, metric and training approach as a parts of our framework and demonstrate it's effectiveness using a dataset we collected.

@article{berezin2025_2503.16072,
  title={ Redefining Toxicity: An Objective and Context-Aware Approach for Stress-Level-Based Detection },
  author={ Sergey Berezin and Reza Farahbakhsh and Noel Crespi },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.16072},
  year={ 2025 }
}