Cyberbullying Detection: An Overview

This paper is an overview of cyberbullying which occurs mostly on social networking sites and issues and challenges in detecting cyberbullying. The topic presented in this paper starts with an introduction on cyberbullying: definition, categories and roles. Then, in the discussion of cyberbullying detection, available data sources, features and classification techniques used are reviewed. Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning are the famous approaches used to identify bullying keywords within the corpus. Finally, issues and challenges in cyberbullying detection are highlighted and discussed.