Offensive content is pervasive in social media and a reason for concern to companies government organizations. Several studies have been recently published investigating methods detect the various forms of such (e.g., hate speech, cyberbullying, cyberaggression). The clear majority these deal with English partially because most annotated datasets available contain data. In this article, we take...

The paper describes a speaker independent segmentation system for breaking Arabic uttered sentences into its constituent syllables. The goal is to construct a database of acoustical Arabic syllables as a step towards a syllable-based Arabic speech verification/recognition system. The proposed technique segments the utterances based on maxima extraction from delta function of 1st MFC coefficient...

The constant exposure to electronic media has increased the likelihood of adolescents experiencing hurtful events such as cyberbullying. The current study examined how adolescents’ moral evaluations of cyberbullying are affected by different aspects of the event including falsity of posts, power imbalance and intention to harm. Adolescents between 12–13 years of age (n = 77) and 15–16 years of ...

This paper presents a qualitative study of the supportive behavior of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) that provides social support to cyberbullying victims. The results indicate that social support is conveyed. In addition, we demonstrate a method that can be utilized to evaluate embodied agents for vulnerable target audiences (e.g., children), and in sensitive domains (e.g., cyberbullyi...

A questionnaire on bullying and cyberbullying was administered to 30 secondary students (Grades 7-12) in a charter school for the Deaf and hard of hearing and a matched group of 22 hearing students in a charter secondary school on the same campus. Because the sample size was small and distributions non-normal, results are primarily descriptive and correlational. No significant differences by he...

Abstract Cyberbullying is an increasingly problematic psychosocial health risk, particularly in youth. Electroencephalography (EEG) commonly utilized to investigate the potential effects of social behaviors on brain activity. Hence, current paper provides a systematic review EEG-related studies that have addressed cyberbullying-like behaviors. Initial searches from 4 databases returned 1150 uni...