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Keystroke Patterns as prosody in digital writings: A case study with deceptive reviews and essays

  • Stony Brook University
  • University of Washington

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Abstract

In this paper, we explore the use of keyboard strokes as a means to access the real-time writing process of online authors, analogously to prosody in speech analysis, in the context of deception detection. We show that differences in keystroke patterns like editing maneuvers and duration of pauses can help distinguish between truthful and deceptive writing. Empirical results show that incorporating key stroke based features lead to improved performance in deception detection in two different domains: online reviews and essays.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEMNLP 2014 - 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages1469-1473
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781937284961
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2014 - Doha, Qatar
Duration: Oct 25 2014Oct 29 2014

Publication series

NameEMNLP 2014 - 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Conference

Conference2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2014
Country/TerritoryQatar
CityDoha
Period10/25/1410/29/14

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