Toxic content on social media is a growing problem that affects platforms and the people using them. Quora is one of those platforms, that took the initiative to create a challenge on Kaggle related to this problem, with the name of “Quora Insincere Questions Classification”, the respective dataset being used in this project.
An existential problem for any major website today is how to handle toxic and divisive content. Quora wants to tackle this problem head-on to keep their platform a place where users can feel safe sharing their knowledge with the world.
This project’s goal consists in joining deep learning techniques with natural language processing to solve Quora’s challenge in detecting toxic content on the platform and therefore improve online conversations