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Beyond Binary: Towards Embracing Complexities in Cyberbullying Detection and Intervention - A Position Paper

Davis, Brian orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-5759-2655, Verma, Kanishk orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-7172-4098, Adebayo, Kolawole, Wagner, Joachim orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-8290-3849, Reynolds, Megan orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-0162-6406, Umbach, Rebecca and Milosevic, Tijana orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-1502-7479 (2024) Beyond Binary: Towards Embracing Complexities in Cyberbullying Detection and Intervention - A Position Paper. In: Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), 20-25 May, 2024, Torino, Italy.

Abstract
In the digital age, cyberbullying (CB) poses a significant concern, impacting individuals as early as primary school and leading to severe or lasting consequences, including an increased risk of self-harm. CB incidents, are not limited to bullies and victims, but include bystanders with various roles, and usually have numerous sub-categories and variations of online harms. This position paper emphasises the complexity of CB incidents by drawing on insights from psychology, social sciences, and computational linguistics. While awareness of CB complexities is growing, existing computational techniques tend to oversimplify CB as a binary classification task, often relying on training datasets that capture peripheries of CB behaviours. Inconsistent definitions and categories of CB-related online harms across various platforms further complicates the issue. Ethical concerns arise when CB research involves children to role-play CB incidents to curate datasets. Through multi-disciplinary collaboration, we propose strategies for consideration when developing CB detection systems. We present our position on leveraging large language models (LLMs) such as Claude-2 and Llama2-Chat as an alternative approach to generate CB-related role-playing datasets. Our goal is to assist researchers, policymakers, and online platforms in making informed decisions regarding the automation of CB incident detection and intervention. By addressing these complexities, our research contributes to a more nuanced and effective approach to combating CB especially in young people.
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:No
Uncontrolled Keywords:Cyberbullying detection, Evaluation strategies, Chain-of-thought prompting
Subjects:UNSPECIFIED
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Institutes and Centres > ADAPT
Research Institutes and Centres > Anti-Bullying Research Centre (ABC)
Published in: 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings. .
Official URL:https://lrec-coling-2024.org/about-lrec-coling/
Copyright Information:Authors
ID Code:31013
Deposited On:29 Apr 2025 09:17 by Vidatum Academic . Last Modified 29 Apr 2025 09:17
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