Detecting offensive language in social media to protect adolescent online safety

Proceedings - 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom/PASSAT 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 71-80

  Chen, Ying ^a   Zhou, Yilu ^b   Zhu, Sencun ^a,c   Xu, Heng ^c  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescent safety; cyberbullying; offensive languages; social media

Indexed keywords

CONTENT DETECTION; CYBER BULLYING; OFFENSIVE LANGUAGES; ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIAS; PROCESSING SPEED; SOCIAL MEDIA; SYNTACTIC FEATURES; SYNTACTIC RULES; TEXTUAL CONTENT; WRITING STYLE;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84873615388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SocialCom-PASSAT.2012.55     Document Type: Conference Paper

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