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In recent years, bullying and aggression against users on social media have grown significantly, causing serious consequences to victims of all demographics. In particular, cyberbullying affects more than half of young social media users…

The detection of online cyberbullying has seen an increase in societal importance, popularity in research, and available open data. Nevertheless, while computational power and affordability of resources continue to increase, the access…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Chris Emmery , Ben Verhoeven , Guy De Pauw , Gilles Jacobs , Cynthia Van Hee , Els Lefever , Bart Desmet , Véronique Hoste , Walter Daelemans

Cyberbullying is a prevalent social problem that inflicts detrimental consequences to the health and safety of victims such as psychological distress, anti-social behaviour, and suicide. The automation of cyberbullying detection is a recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Gathika Ratnayaka , Thushari Atapattu , Mahen Herath , Georgia Zhang , Katrina Falkner

Social media has become an integral part of modern life, but it has also brought with it the pervasive issue of cyberbullying a serious menace in today's digital age. Cyberbullying, a form of harassment that occurs on social networks, has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Arvapalli Sai Susmitha , Pradeep Pujari

Antisocial behavior (ASB) on social media -- including hate speech, harassment, and cyberbullying -- poses growing risks to platform safety and societal well-being. Prior research has focused largely on networks such as X and Reddit, while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hajar Bakarou , Mohamed Sinane El Messoussi , Anaïs Ollagnier

Harassment by cyberbullies is a significant phenomenon on the social media. Existing works for cyberbullying detection have at least one of the following three bottlenecks. First, they target only one particular social media platform (SMP).…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Sweta Agrawal , Amit Awekar

Cyberbullying is a growing problem affecting more than half of all American teens. The main goal of this paper is to investigate fundamentally new approaches to understand and automatically detect incidents of cyberbullying over images in…

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Offensive language is pervasive in social media. Individuals frequently take advantage of the perceived anonymity of computer-mediated communication, using this to engage in behavior that many of them would not consider in real life. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Nikhil Oswal

One major problem with cyberbullying research is the lack of data, since researchers are traditionally forced to rely on survey data where victims and perpetrators self-report their impressions. In this paper, an automatic data collection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Shane Murnion , William J. Buchanan , Adrian Smales , Gordon Russell

Positive, supportive online communication in social media (candy speech) has the potential to foster civility, yet automated detection of such language remains underexplored, limiting systematic analysis of its impact. We investigate how…

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Sarcasm is a linguistic expression often used to communicate the opposite of what is said, usually something that is very unpleasant with an intention to insult or ridicule. Inherent ambiguity in sarcastic expressions, make sarcasm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Ramya Akula , Ivan Garibay

Cybercrime increasingly exploits human cognitive biases in addition to technical vulnerabilities, yet most existing analytical frameworks focus primarily on operational aspects and overlook psychological manipulation. This paper proposes…

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The widespread popularity of social media has led to an increase in hateful, abusive, and sexist language, motivating methods for the automatic detection of such phenomena. The goal of the SemEval shared task \textit{Towards Explainable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Janis Goldzycher

Cyberbullying is a problem in today's ubiquitous online communities. Filtering it out of online conversations has proven a challenge, and efforts have led to the creation of many different datasets, all offered as resources to train…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Khoury Richard , Larochelle Marc-André

Technological advances in the Internet and online social networks have brought many benefits to humanity. At the same time, this growth has led to an increase in hate speech, the main global threat. To improve the reliability of black-box…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ghislain Dorian Tchuente Mondjo

Cyberbullying, which often has a deeply negative impact on the victim, has grown as a serious issue in Online Social Networks. Recently, researchers have created automated machine learning algorithms to detect Cyberbullying using social and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Vivek Singh , Connor Hofenbitzer

This study used text mining to investigate people's insights about cyberbullying. English-language tweets were collected and analyzed by R software. Our analysis demonstrated three major themes: (a) the major actions that needed to be taken…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Iman Tahamtan , Li-Min Huang

Cyber threat detection has become an important area of focus in today's digital age due to the growing spread of fake information and harmful content on social media platforms such as Twitter (now 'X'). These cyber threats, often disguised…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Saydul Akbar Murad , Ashim Dahal , Nick Rahimi

Technological advancements have resulted in an exponential increase in the use of online social networks (OSNs) worldwide. While online social networks provide a great communication medium, they also increase the user's exposure to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Sylvia W Azumah , Nelly Elsayed , Zag ElSayed , Murat Ozer

The problems of online hate speech and cyberbullying have significantly worsened since the increase in popularity of social media platforms such as YouTube and Twitter (X). Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques have proven to provide…

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