Automatic Detection and Prevention of Cyberbullying
Title | Automatic Detection and Prevention of Cyberbullying |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2015 |
Authors | Van Hee, C, Lefever, E, Verhoeven, B, Mennes, J, Desmet, B, De Pauw, G, Daelemans, W, Hoste, V |
Conference Name | Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human and Social Analytics (HUSO 2015) |
Date Published | 2015/10/11 |
Conference Location | St. Julians, Malta |
Abstract | The recent development of social media poses new challenges to the research community in analyzing online interactions between people. Social networking sites offer great opportunities for connecting with others, but also increase the vulnerability of young people to undesirable phenomena, such as cybervictimization. Recent research reports that on average, 20% to 40% of all teenagers have been victimized online. In this paper, we focus on cyberbullying as a particular form of cybervictimization. Successful prevention depends on the adequate detection of potentially harmful messages. However, given the massive information overload on the Web, there is a need for intelligent systems to identify potential risks automatically. We present the construction and annotation of a corpus of Dutch social media posts annotated with fine-grained cyberbullying-related text categories, such as insults and threats. Also, the specific participants (harasser, victim or bystander) in a cyberbullying conversation are identified to enhance the analysis of human interactions involving cyberbullying. Apart from describing our dataset construction and annotation, we present proof-of-concept experiments on the automatic identification of cyberbullying events and fine-grained cyberbullying categories. |