GENIUS Keylog Corpus - a German High School Student Corpus with Keystroke Logging Data

Nils-Jonathan Schaller, Thorben Jansen, Lars Höft, Hannah Pünjer, Andrea Horbach


Abstract
Student writing has been studied either as a final product (arguments in an already written text) or as a writing process (keystroke data), but not in an integrated manner. We present Anonymised Keylog Corpus, the first publicly available dataset (as far as we know) that combines both comprehensive argumentative annotations with keystroke logging (259 German argumentative essays written by high school students). Our analysis reveals that 96% of students wrote linearly without recursion and 88% omitted the conclusion section. Writing was mainly characterised by fluent writing without extensive pauses, mainly due to the time limit for completing the task. Additionally we suggest methodology on how to combine annotations with keystroke events and carried out an explorative analysis of writer profiles.
Anthology ID:
2026.lrec-1.550
Volume:
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2026
Address:
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Editors:
Stelios Piperidis, Núria Bel, Henk van den Heuvel, Nancy Ide, Simon Krek, Antonio Toral
Venue:
LREC
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Publisher:
ELRA Language Resource Association
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Pages:
6919–6928
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-main-550
DOI:
10.63317/4zdv5j2yj6vg
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Cite (ACL):
Nils-Jonathan Schaller, Thorben Jansen, Lars Höft, Hannah Pünjer, and Andrea Horbach. 2026. GENIUS Keylog Corpus - a German High School Student Corpus with Keystroke Logging Data. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 6919–6928, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.
Cite (Informal):
GENIUS Keylog Corpus - a German High School Student Corpus with Keystroke Logging Data (Schaller et al., LREC 2026)
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