A guest researcher talk with Ildikó Pilán, Senior Research Scientist at the Norwegian Computing Center.
Keystroke logging provides valuable insights by capturing not only the final written product, but also the pauses and revisions underlying text production, offering a glimpse into the cognitive processes behind it. In this talk, I will introduce keystroke logging and the IncluEdS research project, which is currently collecting keystroke-logged texts from learners of Norwegian. I will present some existing studies and our plans for using these process data: (a) to investigate the order in which some grammatical forms are acquired, and (b) to develop machine learning models for automatically estimating CEFR proficiency from keystroke-logged texts, with explanations designed to be pedagogically useful. Finally, I will discuss preliminary work on using keystroke data to distinguish organic typing from transcribed typing, occurring when copying text from external sources, with a focus on generative AI systems.