Dyslexia Prediction from Natural Reading of Danish Texts

Marina Björnsdóttir, Nora Hollenstein, Maria Barrett

Keywords: dyslexia prediction, Danish, eye tracking

TL;DR: We present the first attempt to classify dyslexia from eye movements during natural reading of Danish text.

Abstract: Dyslexia screening in adults is an open challenge since difficulties may not align with standardised tests designed for children. We collect eye-tracking data from natural reading of Danish texts from readers with dyslexia while closely following the experimental design of a corpus of readers without dyslexia. Research suggests that the opaque orthography of the Danish language affects the diagnostic characteristics of dyslexia. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to classify dyslexia from eye movements during reading in Danish. We experiment with various machine-learning methods, and our best model yields 0.85 F1 score.

Student Paper: Yes, the first author is a student