A comparison of classification models to detect cyberbullying in the Peruvian Spanish language on twitter

Cyberbullying is a social problem in which bullies’ actions are more harmful than in traditional forms of bullying as they have the power to repeatedly humiliate the victim in front of an entire community through social media. Nowadays, multiple works aim at detecting acts of cyberbullying via the a...

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Autores: Cuzcano Chavez, Ximena Marianne, Ayma Quirita, Victor Hugo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Perú
Institución:Universidad de Lima
Repositorio:ULIMA-Institucional
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ulima.edu.pe:20.500.12724/12843
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12724/12843
https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0111018
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cyberbullying
Bullying
Ciberacoso
Blogs
Acoso moral
https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#2.02.04
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Sumario:Cyberbullying is a social problem in which bullies’ actions are more harmful than in traditional forms of bullying as they have the power to repeatedly humiliate the victim in front of an entire community through social media. Nowadays, multiple works aim at detecting acts of cyberbullying via the analysis of texts in social media publications written in one or more languages; however, few investigations target the cyberbullying detection in the Spanish language. In this work, we aim to compare four traditional supervised machine learning methods performances in detecting cyberbullying via the identification of four cyberbullying-related categories on Twitter posts written in the Peruvian Spanish language. Specifically, we trained and tested the Naive Bayes, Multinomial Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machines, and Random Forest classifiers upon a manually annotated dataset with the help of human participants. The results indicate that the best performing classifier for the cyberbullying detection task was the Support Vector Machine classifier.