Cyberbullying Identification Using Participant-Vocabulary Consistency

Understand

With the rise of social media, people can now form relationships and communities easily regardless of location, race, ethnicity, or gender.

• However, the power of social media simultaneously enables harmful online behavior such as harassment and bullying.
• Cyberbullying is a serious social problem, making it an important topic in social network analysis.
• Machine learning methods can potentially help provide better understanding of this phenomenon, but they must address several key challenges: the rapidly changing vocabulary involved in cyber- bullying, the role of social network structure, and the scale of the data.