A review on non-supervised approaches for cyberbullying detection

Abstract

The current period is dominated by social networks in daily life. Despite the several efforts and research practices done to overcome the issue of cyberbullying, it still presents a problem. Despite the fact that social networks are useful for social gathering and communication, they also present new opportunities for harmful criminal acts. Cyber-harassment is an example that is enabled through the mistreatment and abuse of the internet as a means of harassing or bullying others virtually. To minimize these occurrences, research into computerbased methods has been performed to detect cyber-harassment. This literature survey shows that supervised learning methods were mostly used for cyber-bullying detection. Moreover, some non-supervised methods and other techniques have also shown to be effective in terms of accuracy towards cyber-bullying detection. This paper, therefore, surveys existing recent research on non-supervised techniques as well as it summarizes accuracy results obtained from several papers to discuss the significance of non-supervised learning approaches in comparison with traditional learning methods.