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Cyberbullying Detection in Social Networks Using Bi-GRU with Self-Attention Mechanism

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Fang, Yong, Yang, Shaoshuai, Zhao, Bin, Huang, Cheng·2021·Information

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With the propagation of cyberbullying in social networks as a trending subject, cyberbullying detection has become a social problem that researchers are concerned about. Developing intelligent models and systems helps detect cyberbullying automatically. This work focuses on text-based cyberbullying detection because it is the commonly used information carrier in social networks and is the widely used feature in this regard studies. Motivated by the documented success of neural networks, we propose a complete model combining the bidirectional gated recurrent unit (Bi-GRU) and the self-attention mechanism. In detail, we introduce the design of a GRU cell and Bi-GRU’s advantage for learning the underlying relationships between words from both directions. Besides, we present the design of the self-attention mechanism and the benefit of this joining for achieving a greater performance of cyberbullying classification tasks. The proposed model could address the limitation of the vanishing and exploding gradient problems. We avoid using oversampling or downsampling on experimental data which could result in the overestimation of evaluation. We conduct a comparative assessment on two commonly used datasets, and the results show that our proposed method outperformed baselines in all evaluation metrics.

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Authors
Fang, Y., Yang, S., Zhao, B., & Huang, C.
Affiliations
  • Sichuan University (CN)
  • China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CN)
Corresponding author
Huang, Cheng
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Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2021-04-16
Volume
12
Issue
4
Pages
171
ISSN
2078-2489 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3153712291
Cited by
74
References
56
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 2
FWCI
4.60
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Information (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFB0804503)
  • Sichuan Science and Technology Program (2020YFG0076)
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, social networks, bidirectional gated recurrent unit, self-attention, text classification, class imbalance

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