Automated Identification of Toxic Code Reviews Using ToxiCR

Understand

Toxic conversations during software development interactions may have serious repercussions on a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) development project.

• For example, victims of toxic conversations may become afraid to express themselves, therefore get demotivated, and may eventually leave the project.
• Automated filtering of toxic conversations may help a FOSS community to maintain healthy interactions among its members.
• However, off-the-shelf toxicity detectors perform poorly on Software Engineering (SE) datasets, such as one curated from code review comments.