Cyberbullying Detection Model for Arabic Text Using Deep Learning

Reem Albayari, Sherief Abdallah and Khaled Shaalan
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Reem Albayari: Computer Science Department, The British University in Dubai, Dubai International Academic City, P. O. Box 345015, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Sherief Abdallah: Computer Science Department, The British University in Dubai, Dubai International Academic City, P. O. Box 345015, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Khaled Shaalan: Computer Science Department, The British University in Dubai, Dubai International Academic City, P. O. Box 345015, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM), 2025, vol. 24, issue 03, 1-23

Abstract: In the new era of digital communications, cyberbullying is a significant concern for society. Cyberbullying can negatively impact stakeholders and can vary from psychological to pathological, such as self-isolation, depression and anxiety potentially leading to suicide. Hence, detecting any act of cyberbullying in an automated manner will be helpful for stakeholders to prevent any unfortunate results from the victim’s perspective. Data-driven approaches, such as machine learning (ML), particularly deep learning (DL), have shown promising results. However, the meta-analysis shows that ML approaches, particularly DL, have not been extensively studied for the Arabic text classification of cyberbullying. Therefore, in this study, we conduct a performance evaluation and comparison for various DL algorithms (LSTM, GRU, LSTM-ATT, CNN-BLSTM, CNN-LSTM and LSTM-TCN) on different datasets of Arabic cyberbullying to obtain more precise and dependable findings. As a result of the models’ evaluation, a hybrid DL model is proposed that combines the best characteristics of the baseline models CNN, BLSTM and GRU for identifying cyberbullying. The proposed hybrid model improves the accuracy of all the studied datasets and can be integrated into different social media sites to automatically detect cyberbullying from Arabic social datasets. It has the potential to significantly reduce cyberbullying. The application of DL to cyberbullying detection problems within Arabic text classification can be considered a novel approach due to the complexity of the problem and the tedious process involved, besides the scarcity of relevant research studies.

Keywords: Text mining; deep learning; convolutional neural network; classification; categorisation; natural language processing; Arabic language (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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