---
language:
- bg
task_categories:
- text-classification
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- not-for-all-audiences
- medical
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---

#### Warning: This dataset contains content that includes toxic, offensive, or otherwise inappropriate language. 

The `toxic-data-bg` dataset consists of 4,384 manually annotated sentences across four categories: toxic language, medical terminology, non-toxic language, and terms related to minority communities.


![image/png](https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/640721cd5e6d06cc2cf35deb/a72a4CrV5nQ2ssfOTm87A.png)

The dataset an extention of the ["Hate speech detection in Bulgarian" dataset](http://www.pfeffer.at/data/bulgarian/) and consist of sentences of: 
- BG-Jargon
- BG-Nationalisti forum 
- BG-Mamma forum
- Proud.bg forum
- Framar.bg forum. 

More information in [the paper](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388842558_Detecting_Toxic_Language_Ontology_and_BERT-based_Approaches_for_Bulgarian_Text) 
and in the [conference presentation](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CYQ5uU2lZgabUH5ap4br7-LCqoWZXlsXAG8Z5TfcIYc/edit?usp=sharing). 

# Code and usage
The code for scraping is available in the [GitHub repository of the project](https://github.com/TsvetoslavVasev/toxic-language-classification).


# Reference

If you use this dataset in your academic project, please cite as:

```bibtex
@article
{berbatova2025detecting,
title={Detecting Toxic Language: Ontology and BERT-based Approaches for Bulgarian Text},
author={Berbatova, Melania and Vasev, Tsvetoslav},
year={2025}
}
```