Online grooming detection: A comprehensive survey of child exploitation in chat logs

dc.contributor.authorBorj, P. R., Raja, K., & Bours, P.
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-26T13:47:46Z
dc.date.available2017-07-26T13:47:46Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractSocial media platforms present significant threats against underage users targeted for predatory intents. Many early research works have applied the footprints left by online predators to investigate online grooming. While digital forensics tools provide security to online users, it also encounters some critical challenges, such as privacy issues and the lack of data for research in this field. Our literature review investigates all research papers on grooming detection in online conversations by looking at the psychological definitions and aspects of grooming. We study the psychological theories behind the grooming characteristics used by machine learning models that have led to predatory stage detection. Our survey broadly considers the authorship profiling research works used for grooming detection in online conversations, along with predatory conversation detection and predatory identification approaches. Various approaches for online grooming detection have been evaluated based on the metrics used in the grooming detection problem. We have also categorized the available datasets and used feature vectors to give readers a deep knowledge of the problem considering their constraints and open research gaps. Finally, this survey details the constraints that challenge grooming detection, unaddressed problems, and possible future solutions to improve the state-of-the-art and make the algorithms more reliable.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBorj, P. R., Raja, K., & Bours, P. (2022). Online grooming detection: A comprehensive survey of child exploitation in chat logs. Knowledge-Based Systems, 110039.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950705122011327
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/3455
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherKnowledge-Based Systemsen_US
dc.subjectcybergroomingen_US
dc.subjectchild sexual exploitationen_US
dc.subjectonline predatorsen_US
dc.subjecttext analysisen_US
dc.subjectNorwayen_US
dc.subjectInternational Resourcesen_US
dc.titleOnline grooming detection: A comprehensive survey of child exploitation in chat logsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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