Multilingual cyberbullying detection system: Detecting cyberbullying in Arabic content

Abstract : In the era of Internet and electronic devices bullying shifted its place from schools and backyards into the cyberspace; it is now known as Cyberbullying. Children of the Arab countries are suffering from cyberbullying same as children worldwide. Thus concerns from cyberbullying are elevating. A lot of research is done for the purpose of handling this situation. The current research is focusing on detection and mitigation of cyberbullying; while previous research dealt with the psychological effects of cyberbullying on the victim and the predator. A lot of research proposed solutions for detecting cyberbullying in English language and a few more languages, but none till now covered cyberbullying in Arabic language. Several techniques contribute in cyberbullying detection, mainly Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). This paper presents a solution for detecting and stopping cyberbullying with focus on content written in Arabic Language. Thus the primary results of the system are displayed and discussed.