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Approaches to Automated Detection of Cyberbullying: A Survey
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Research into cyberbullying detection has increased in recent years, due in part to the proliferation of cyberbullying across social media and its detrimental effect on young people. A growing body of work is emerging on automated approaches to cyberbullying detection. These approaches utilise machine learning and natural language processing techniques to identify the characteristics of a cyberbullying exchange and automatically detect cyberbullying by matching textual data to the identified traits. In this paper, we present a systematic review of published research (as identified via Scopus, ACM and IEEE Xplore bibliographic databases) on cyberbullying detection approaches. On the basis of our extensive literature review, we categorise existing approaches into 4 main classes, namely supervised learning, lexicon-based, rule-based, and mixed-initiative approaches. Supervised learning-based approaches typically use classifiers such as SVM and Naıve Bayes to develop predictive models for cyberbullying detection. Lexicon-based systems utilise word lists and use the presence of words within the lists to detect cyberbullying. Rule-based approaches match text to predefined rules to identify bullying, and mixed-initiatives approaches combine human-based reasoning with one or more of the aforementioned approaches. We found lack of labelled datasets and non-holistic consideration of cyberbullying by researchers when developing detection systems are two key challenges facing cyberbullying detection research. This paper essentially maps out the state-of-the-art in cyberbullying detection research and serves as a resource for researchers to determine where to best direct their future research efforts in this field.
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“These studies do not show publicly available datasets for cyberbullying detection, and a few survey papers address the open issues and challenges [26,27].”
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“For example, 'The image that you have sent so irritated me and I would rather not contact with you any longer!' is not easy to detect as cyberbullying without investigating from a rationale factor, albeit that model shows negative sentiment [26].”
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- Salawu, S., He, Y., & Lumsden, J.
- Affiliations
- Aston University (GB)
- Venue
- IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
- Published
- 2020-01-01
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
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- Pages
- 3-24
- ISSN
- 1949-3045 (ISSN-L)
- 2371-9850
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- Cited by
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Keywords
- cyberbullying detection, automated detection, social media, supervised learning, rule-based detection, annotated dataset, text classification, youth
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