Mohamed Bouguessa

Work place: Department of Computer Science, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

E-mail: bouguessa.mohamed@uqam.ca

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Research Interests: Neural Networks, Computer Networks, Data Mining, Data Structures and Algorithms

Biography

Mohamed Bouguessa received the MSc and the PhD degrees, respectively, in 2005 and 2009 from the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. He is currently an associate professor of computer science at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His research covers a variety of data mining related topics. His current research projects include clustering, dynamic networks and graph neural networks.

Author Articles
Data Mining for Cyberbullying and Harassment Detection in Arabic Texts

By Eman Bashir Mohamed Bouguessa

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2021.05.04, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2021

Broadly cyberbullying is viewed as a severe social danger that influences many individuals around the globe, particularly young people and teenagers. The Arabic world has embraced technology and continues using it in different ways to communicate inside social media platforms. However, the Arabic text has drawbacks for its complexity, challenges, and scarcity of its resources. This paper investigates several questions related to the content of how to protect an Arabic text from cyberbullying/harassment through the information posted on Twitter. To answer this question, we collected the Arab corpus covering the topics with specific words, which will explain in detail. We devised experiments in which we investigated several learning approaches. Our results suggest that deep learning models like LSTM achieve better performance compared to other traditional cyberbullying classifiers with an accuracy of 72%.

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