Tackling Online Abuse: A Survey of Automated Abuse Detection Methods

Understand

Abuse on the Internet represents an important societal problem of our time.

• Millions of Internet users face harassment, racism, personal attacks, and other types of abuse on online platforms.
• The psychological effects of such abuse on individuals can be profound and lasting.
• Consequently, over the past few years, there has been a substantial research effort towards automated abuse detection in the field of natural language processing (NLP).