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DEA-RNN: A hybrid deep learning approach for cyberbullying detection in Twitter social media platform

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Murshed, Belal Abdullah Hezam, Abawajy, Jemal, Mallappa, Suresha, Saif, Mufeed Ahmed Naji, Al-Ariki, Hasib Daowd Esmail·2022·IEEE Access

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Cyberbullying (CB) has become increasingly prevalent in social media platforms. With the popularity and widespread use of social media by individuals of all ages, it is vital to make social media platforms safer from cyberbullying. This paper presents a hybrid deep learning model, called DEA-RNN, to detect CB on Twitter social media network. The proposed DEA-RNN model combines Elman type Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) with an optimized Dolphin Echolocation Algorithm (DEA) for fine-tuning the Elman RNN’s parameters and reducing training time. We evaluated DEA-RNN thoroughly utilizing a dataset of 10000 tweets and compared its performance to those of state-of-the-art algorithms such as Bi-directional long short term memory (Bi-LSTM), RNN, SVM, Multinomial Naive Bayes (MNB), Random Forests (RF). The experimental results show that DEA-RNN was found to be superior in all the scenarios. It outperformed the considered existing approaches in detecting CB on Twitter platform. DEA-RNN was more efficient in scenario 3, where it has achieved an average of 90.45% accuracy, 89.52% precision, 88.98% recall, 89.25% F1-score, and 90.94% specificity.

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    “In the literature, there are several studies that also present the performance evaluation of different hybrid deep-learning-based approaches [66,115,151,152].”

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Murshed, B. A. H., Abawajy, J., Mallappa, S., Saif, M. A. N., & Al-Ariki, H. D. E.
Affiliations
  • University of Mysore (IN)
  • Deakin University (AU)
  • Visvesvaraya Technological University (IN)
  • Taiz University (YE)
Venue
IEEE Access
Published
2022
Volume
10
Pages
25857-25871
ISSN
2169-3536 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4213430631
Cited by
137
References
60
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2026: 23 · 2025: 39 · 2024: 35 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 6
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9.38
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journal article
Language
en
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  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Greater South Information System
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Spam and Phishing Detection
Keywords
cyberbullying detection, Twitter, Elman neural network, metaheuristic parameter tuning, hybrid deep learning model, social media safety, tweet classification

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