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Textual Toxicity in Social Media: Understanding the Bangla Toxic Language Expressed in Facebook Comment

Abstract

Social Media is a repository of digital literature including user-generated content. The users of social media are expressing their opinion with diverse mediums such as text, emojis, memes, and also through other visual and textual mediums. A major portion of these media elements could be treated as harmful to others and they are known by many words including Cyberbullying and Toxic Language . The goal of this research paper is to analyze a curated and value-added dataset of toxic language titled ToxLex_bn . It is an exhaustive wordlist that can be used as classifier material to detect toxicity in social media. The toxic language/script used by the Bengali community as cyberbullying, hate speech and moral policing became major trends in social media culture in Bangladesh and West Bengal. The toxicity became so high that the victims has to post as a counter or release explanation video for the haters. Most cases are pointed to women celebrity and their relation, dress, lifestyle are became trolled and toxicity flooded in comments boxes. Not only celebrity bashing but also hates occurred between Hindu Muslims, India-Bangladesh, Two opponents of 1971 and these are very common for virtual conflict in the comment thread. Even many times facebook comment causes sue and legal matters in Bangladesh and thus it requires more study. In this study, a Bangla toxic language dataset has been analyzed which was inputted by the user in Bengali script & language. For this, about 1968 unique bigrams or phrases as wordlists have been analyzed which are derived from 2207590 comments. It is assumed that this analysis will reinforce the detection of Bangla's toxic language used in social media and thus cure this virtual disease.

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Mohammad Mamun Or Rashid. 2023-12-09. Textual Toxicity in Social Media: Understanding the Bangla Toxic Language Expressed in Facebook Comment. https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.05467

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