Enhancing the Identification of Cyberbullying through Participant Roles

Gathika Rathnayake, Thushari Atapattu, Mahen Herath, Georgia Zhang, Katrina Falkner


Abstract
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 but widely researched problem, with current research having a strong focus on a binary classification of bullying versus non-bullying. This paper proposes a novel approach to enhancing cyberbullying detection through role modeling. We utilise a dataset from ASKfm to perform multi-class classification to detect participant roles (e.g. victim, harasser). Our preliminary results demonstrate promising performance including 0.83 and 0.76 of F1-score for cyberbullying and role classification respectively, outperforming baselines.
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2020.alw-1.11
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms
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November
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2020
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Online
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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89–94
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10.18653/v1/2020.alw-1.11
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Gathika Rathnayake, Thushari Atapattu, Mahen Herath, Georgia Zhang, and Katrina Falkner. 2020. Enhancing the Identification of Cyberbullying through Participant Roles. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms, pages 89–94, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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