Cyberbullying Intervention Based on Convolutional Neural Networks

Qianjia Huang, Diana Inkpen, Jianhong Zhang, David Van Bruwaene


Abstract
This paper describes the process of building a cyberbullying intervention interface driven by a machine-learning based text-classification service. We make two main contributions. First, we show that cyberbullying can be identified in real-time before it takes place, with available machine learning and natural language processing tools. Second, we present a mechanism that provides individuals with early feedback about how other people would feel about wording choices in their messages before they are sent out. This interface not only gives a chance for the user to revise the text, but also provides a system-level flagging/intervention in a situation related to cyberbullying.
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W18-4405
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying (TRAC-2018)
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August
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2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Ritesh Kumar, Atul Kr. Ojha, Marcos Zampieri, Shervin Malmasi
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TRAC
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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42–51
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Qianjia Huang, Diana Inkpen, Jianhong Zhang, and David Van Bruwaene. 2018. Cyberbullying Intervention Based on Convolutional Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying (TRAC-2018), pages 42–51, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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