Abstract
Cyberbullying has become more prevalent over time, especially towards minority groups, and online human moderators cannot detect cyberbullying content efficiently. Prior work has addressed this problem by detecting cyberbullying with deep learning approaches. In this project, we compare several BERT-based benchmark methods for cyberbullying detection and do a failure analysis to see where the model fails to correctly identify cyberbullying. We find that many falsely classified texts are sarcastic, so we propose a method to mitigate the false classifications by incorporating neural network-based sarcasm detection. We define a simple multilayer perceptron (MLP) that incorpo- rates sarcasm detection in the final cyberbully classifications and demonstrate improvement over benchmark methods.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.trac-1.7
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression & Cyberbullying @ LREC-COLING-2024
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Torino, Italia
- Editors:
- Ritesh Kumar, Atul Kr. Ojha, Shervin Malmasi, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Bornini Lahiri, Siddharth Singh, Shyam Ratan
- Venues:
- TRAC | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- ELRA and ICCL
- Note:
- Pages:
- 52–59
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.trac-1.7
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Xiaoyu Guo and Susan Gauch. 2024. Using Sarcasm to Improve Cyberbullying Detection. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression & Cyberbullying @ LREC-COLING-2024, pages 52–59, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
- Cite (Informal):
- Using Sarcasm to Improve Cyberbullying Detection (Guo & Gauch, TRAC-WS 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.trac-1.7.pdf