TextDetox Multilingual Toxicity — Amharic

A TextDetox 2024 shared task (Amharic) dataset of 5,000 Amharic posts (2,500 toxic, 2,500 non-toxic), collected by Dementieva et al. for PAN/CLEF TextDetox 2024. Each record contains post text, binary toxicity label (0=non-toxic, 1=toxic). TextDetox Amharic provides 5,000 balanced binary toxicity annotations — part of a 15-language multilingual benchmark for cross-lingual toxicity detection research. Suitable for toxicity detection, multilingual content moderation, cross-lingual NLP, hate speech classification, text detoxification.

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5,000 records scored

is toxic50.0% true
true 50.0%false 50.0%
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Frequent terms
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Topic 0

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Topic 1

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Topic 2

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Topic 3

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Topic 6

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Topic 9

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Topic 10

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Topic 12

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Topic 14

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Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
textdetox-am
Authors
Dementieva, Daryna; Moskovskiy, Daniil; Logacheva, Varvara; Dale, David; Ustalov, Dmitry; Panchenko, Alexander
Year
2024
Source paper
Overview of the Multilingual Text Detoxification Task at PAN 2024
DOI / arXiv
10.1007/978-3-031-71908-0_11
License
OpenRAIL++ (Hugging Face card) (LicenseRef-OpenRAIL-plus-plus)
Records
5,000
Languages
am
Collected
2024 (2020s)
Tasks
Toxicity detection (binary; is_toxic) inferred
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (inferred: from the language of the data)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://huggingface.co/datasets/textdetox/multilingual_toxicity_dataset link checked
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Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 593.1 KB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

Citations

Overview of PAN 2024: Multi-author Writing Style Analysis, Multilingual Text Detoxification, Oppositional Thinking Analysis, and Generative AI Authorship Verification Condensed Lab Overview
A. Ayele, N. Babakov, Janek Bevendorff, Xavier Bonet Casals, Berta Chulvi
Journal Article · Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum · 2024

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BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@inproceedings{dementieva2024overview,
  title     = {Overview of the Multilingual Text Detoxification Task at PAN 2024},
  author    = {Dementieva, Daryna and others},
  booktitle = {CLEF 2024 Working Notes},
  year      = {2024}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Dementieva, D., Moskovskiy, D., Logacheva, V., Dale, D., Ustalov, D., & Panchenko, A. (2024). TextDetox Multilingual Toxicity — Amharic [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71908-0_11

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Dementieva, Daryna, et al. TextDetox Multilingual Toxicity — Amharic. 2024, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71908-0_11.

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