# Toxicity Detection

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> Updated: 2026-05-13T20:57:39.271Z
> Type: glossary
> Category: dogal-dil-isleme
**TLDR:** A safety-focused NLP task aimed at identifying insults, aggression, hate speech, or other harmful language use.

<p>Toxicity detection is critical for online platform safety and content moderation. The task is not simply to find offensive words, but to understand context, irony, target, and cultural nuance. Controlling false positives is as important as high accuracy, because overly aggressive moderation can degrade legitimate expression.</p>