Towards User Modelling in the Combat against Cyberbullying [chapter]

Maral Dadvar, Roeland Ordelman, Franciska de Jong, Dolf Trieschnigg
2012 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
Friendships, relationships and social communications have all gone to a new level with new definitions as a result of the invention of online social networks. Meanwhile, alongside this transition there is increasing evidence that online social applications have been used by children and adolescents for bullying. State-of-the-art studies in cyberbullying detection have mainly focused on the content of the conversations while largely ignoring the users involved in cyberbullying. We hypothesis
more » ... incorporation of the users' profile, their characteristics, and post-harassing behaviour, for instance, posting a new status in another social network as a reaction to their bullying experience, will improve the accuracy of cyberbullying detection. Cross-system analyses of the users' behaviour -monitoring users' reactions in different online environments -can facilitate this process and could lead to more accurate detection of cyberbullying. This paper outlines the framework for this faceted approach.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31178-9_34 fatcat:mz4nagzp5vbwdibajf4qhirbre