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Cyberbullying Identification System Based Deep Learning Algorithms

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Aldhyani, Theyazn H. H., Al-Adhaileh, Mosleh Hmoud, Alsubari, Saleh Nagi·2022·Electronics

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Cyberbullying is characterized by deliberate and sustained peer aggression, as well as a power differential between the victim and the perpetrators or abusers. Cyberbullying can have a variety of consequences for victims, including mental health problems, poor academic performance, a tendency to drop out of work, and even suicidal thoughts. The main objective of this study was to develop a cyberbullying detection system (CDS) to uncover hateful and abusive behaviour on social media platforms. Two experiments were carried out to train and test the proposed system with binary and multiclass cyberbullying classification datasets. Hybrid deep learning architecture consisting of convolutional neural networks integrated with bidirectional long short-term memory networks (CNN-BiLSTM) and single BiLSTM models were compared in terms of their ability to classify social media posts into several bullying types related to gender, religion, ethnicity, age, aggression, and non-cyberbullying. Both classifiers showed promising performance in the binary classification dataset (aggressive or non-aggressive bullying), with a detection accuracy of 94%. For the multiclass dataset, BiLSTM outperformed the combined CNN-BiLSTM classifier, achieving an accuracy of 99%. A comparison of our method to the existing method on the multiclass classification dataset revealed that our method performed better in detecting online bullying.

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Authors
Aldhyani, T. H. H., Al-Adhaileh, M. H., & Alsubari, S. N.
Affiliations
  • King Faisal University (SA)
  • Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University (IN)
Corresponding author
Aldhyani, Theyazn H. H.
Venue
Electronics
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2022-10-12
Volume
11
Issue
20
Pages
3273
ISSN
2079-9292 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4304688661
Cited by
55
References
37
Citations by year
2026: 12 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 7
FWCI
3.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Electronics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
Deanship of Scientific Research at King Faisal University (NA000234)
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 › Mental Health via Writing
Keywords
cyberbullying detection, social media, CNN-BiLSTM, bidirectional LSTM, multi-class classification, binary classification, online aggression, hate speech

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