The Tatoxa System for Text Detoxification in Low-Resource Languages: The Case of Tatar

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26015v1
• Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:36:11 GMT
• Title: The Tatoxa System for Text Detoxification in Low-Resource Languages: The Case of Tatar
• Abstract summary: Tatoxa is a state-of-the-art system for text detoxification in the Tatar language.<n>We introduce a new dataset for text detoxification in Tatar, designed for fine tuning and evaluation in low resource settings.<n>Cross lingual transfer experiments indicate that transfer from other languages, including the culturally close Russian, performs significantly worse than training on native Tatar data.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Text detoxification, the automated detection and mitigation of abusive and harmful content, is essential for ensuring the safety of online communities and protecting users. However, low resource languages such as Tatar have received little research attention. In this paper we present Tatoxa, a novel state-of-the-art system for text detoxification in the Tatar language. Comparative experiments show that the proposed approach outperforms existing open source and proprietary commercial LLMs on key quality metrics. We also introduce a new dataset for text detoxification in Tatar, designed for fine tuning and evaluation in low resource settings. Finally, cross lingual transfer experiments indicate that transfer from other languages, including the culturally close Russian, performs significantly worse than training on native Tatar data even when a large Russian corpus is available.

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