Multi-modal cyberbullying detection on social networks

Abstract

Because social networks have become a vital part of people's lives, cyberbullying becomes the most common risk encountered by young people on social networking platforms and raised serious concerns in society. Over the past few decades, most existing work on cyberbullying has focused on text analysis. Yet, the cyberbullying develops into multi-objective, multi-channel, and multi-form. Traditional text analysis methods cannot satisfy the diversity of bullying data in social networks. To deal with the new type of cyberbullying, we propose a multi-modal detection framework that takes into multi-modal information(e.g., image, video, comments, time) on social networks. Specifically, we not only extract textual features but also use the hierarchical attention networks to capture the session feature in social networks and encode several media information(e.g., video, image). Based on these features, we model the multi-modal cyberbullying detection framework to solve the new form of cyberbullying. Experimental analysis on two real-world datasets shows that our framework outperforms several existing state-of-the-art models.