Automatic Detection of Cyberbullying in Social Media Text

Understand

While social media offer great communication opportunities, they also increase the vulnerability of young people to threatening situations online.

• Recent studies report that cyberbullying constitutes a growing problem among youngsters.
• Successful prevention depends on the adequate detection of potentially harmful messages and the information overload on the Web requires intelligent systems to identify potential risks automatically.
• The focus of this paper is on automatic cyberbullying detection in social media text by modelling posts written by bullies, victims, and bystanders of online bullying.