Troll Detection and Anti-Trolling Solution using Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning

Authors

  • Saloni Dangre  Department of Computer Engineering, Dr. D.Y.Patil School of Engineering, Lohegaon, Maharashtra India
  • Shubham Sharma  Department of Computer Engineering, Dr. D.Y.Patil School of Engineering, Lohegaon, Maharashtra India
  • Swati Balyan  Department of Computer Engineering, Dr. D.Y.Patil School of Engineering, Lohegaon, Maharashtra India
  • Tanisha Jaiswal  Department of Computer Engineering, Dr. D.Y.Patil School of Engineering, Lohegaon, Maharashtra India
  • Dr. Pankaj Agarkar  Head of Department , Department of Computer Engineering, Dr. D.Y.Patil School of Engineering, Lohegaon, Maharashtra India
  • Prof. Pooja Shinde  Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Dr. D.Y.Patil School of Engineering, Lohegaon, Maharashtra India

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With the increase in usage of social media platforms, bullying and trolling has burgeoned proportionately. The sole reason for this is that there is no surveilling authority on these platforms. To add to that, anonymity protects the identity of these bullies. Anyone from kids to teenagers to adults can fall prey to trolling. This paper focuses on using AI/ML algorithms to invigilate and report such bullies and further take actions depending on the severity of the threat imposed by them. We will be introducing lexical, aggression, syntactic and sentiment analyzers to examine a tweet and determine if it was meant to be a troll or not. The output of these analyzers will be then fed to classifier algorithms such as Naive Bayes algorithm, K-mean, to segregate these tweets based on their toxicity rating.

Abstract

With the increase in usage of social media platforms, bullying and trolling has burgeoned proportionately. The sole reason for this is that there is no surveilling authority on these platforms. To add to that, anonymity protects the identity of these bullies. Anyone from kids to teenagers to adults can fall prey to trolling. This paper focuses on using AI/ML algorithms to invigilate and report such bullies and further take actions depending on the severity of the threat imposed by them. We will be introducing lexical, aggression, syntactic and sentiment analyzers to examine a tweet and determine if it was meant to be a troll or not. The output of these analyzers will be then fed to classifier algorithms such as Naive Bayes algorithm, K-mean, to segregate these tweets based on their toxicity rating.

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2020-12-18

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Volume 5, Issue 8, November-December-2020

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Saloni Dangre, Shubham Sharma, Swati Balyan, Tanisha Jaiswal, Dr. Pankaj Agarkar, Prof. Pooja Shinde "Troll Detection and Anti-Trolling Solution using Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning" International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011,Volume 5, Issue 8, pp.53-58, November-December-2020.