Detection of Cyberbullying on Social Media Messages in Turkish

dc.authoridSarac, Esra/0000-0002-2503-0084
dc.authoridOzel, Selma Ayse/0000-0001-9201-6349
dc.contributor.authorOzel, Selma Ayse
dc.contributor.authorSarac, Esra
dc.contributor.authorAkdemir, Seyran
dc.contributor.authorAksu, Hulya
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-06T17:37:20Z
dc.date.available2025-01-06T17:37:20Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description2017 International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK) -- OCT 05-08, 2017 -- Antalya, TURKEY
dc.description.abstractThe increased use of the Internet and the ease of access to online communities like social media have provided an avenue for cybercrimes. Cyberbullying, which is a kind of cybercrime, is defined as an aggressive, intentional action against a defenseless person by using the Internet, social media, or other electronic contents. Researchers have found that many of the bullying cases have tragically ended in suicides; hence automatic detection of cyberbullying has become important. The aim of this study is to detect cyberbullying on social media messages written in Turkish. To our knowledge, this is the first study which makes cyberbully detection on Turkish texts. We prepare a dataset from Instagram and Twitter messages written in Turkish and then we applied machine learning techniques that are Support Vector Machines (SVM), decision tree (C4.5), Naive Bayes Multinomial, and k Nearest Neighbors (kNN) classifiers to detect cyberbullying. We also apply information gain and chi-square feature selection methods to improve the accuracy of classifiers. We observe that when both words and emoticons in the text messages are taken into account as features, cyberbully detection improves. Among the classifiers, Naive Bayes Multinomial is the most successful one in terms both classification accuracy and running time. When feature selection is applied classification accuracy improves up to 84% for the dataset used.
dc.description.sponsorshipIEEE Adv Technol Human,Istanbul Teknik Univ,Gazi Univ,Atilim Univ,TBV,Akdeniz Univ,Tmmob Bilgisayar Muhendisleri Odasi
dc.description.sponsorshipScientific Research Project Unit of Cukurova University [FYD-2015-4805]
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study was supported by Scientific Research Project Unit of Cukurova University under Grant Number: FYD-2015-4805.
dc.identifier.endpage370
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-5386-0930-9
dc.identifier.startpage366
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14669/2195
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000426856900068
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherIEEE
dc.relation.ispartof2017 International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (Ubmk)
dc.relation.publicationcategoryKonferans Öğesi - Uluslararası - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241211
dc.subjectcyberbullying
dc.subjecttext classification
dc.subjectTurkish texts
dc.subjectsocial media
dc.titleDetection of Cyberbullying on Social Media Messages in Turkish
dc.typeConference Object

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