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CyberShield: A Smart Detection System for Cyberbullying Using Machine Learning and NLP

Author(s) Ms. Tabassum Ahmed Mujawar, Prof. Shakila Siddavatam
Country India
Abstract Bullies pull tricks all the time now. They steer clear of plain old cuss words, stuffing the hurt into sarcasm or that daily slang and odd local twists which plain filters miss every time. Legacy moderation systems remain antiquated, relying solely on rigid matching against predefined profane lexicons.They skip the real stuff like context, vibe or what's meant, so hurt builds up quick and victims end up wrecked mentally with zero warning. That's what pushed me to create CyberShield during my project something that doesn't just scan words but actually understands the nastiness behind them.
I went with BERT because it's killer at picking up bidirectional context, like whether a sentence is aggressive or just playful banter. Built the whole thing as a lightweight Python Flask web app that processes messages in real time as they hit the server. When it flags potential harassment say, a sarcastic jab laced with slang it triggers Twilio to fire off an SMS to moderators and uses SocketIO for those instant push notifications in the dashboard. No lag time at all alerts pop up in seconds flat.Yeah and on precision, it held steady—axed loads of wrong flags by locking onto the raw mood and real point of it all, ditching shallow word grabs.. CyberShield has rough edges still, but man it's pushing online spots to act alive quick, sharp, truly guarding folks. Shows contextual AI ramps up checks without the mess.
Keywords Keywords: spotting harassment, getting the context, BERT for classifying, real-time mod checks, Flask build, Twilio texts, SocketIO pings, catching sarcasm, multi-lang bully detection, sentiment check.
Field Computer > Artificial Intelligence / Simulation / Virtual Reality
Published In Volume 8, Issue 1, January-February 2026
Published On 2026-02-27

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