| Title |
Reading does not equal reading: comparing, simulating and exploiting reading behavior across populations / |
| Authors |
Reich, David R ; Deng, Shuwen ; Björnsdóttir, Marina ; Jäger, Lena A ; Hollenstein, Nora |
| ISBN |
9782493814104 |
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| Is Part of |
LREC-COLING 2024: the 2024 joint international conference on computational linguistics, language resources and evaluation, 20-25 May, 2024 Torino, Italia: conference proceedings.. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2024. p. 13586-13594.. ISBN 9782493814104 |
| Keywords [eng] |
eye-tracking ; scanpaths ; Danish ; dyslexia ; second language speaker ; bias ; reading |
| Abstract [eng] |
Eye-tracking-while-reading corpora play a crucial role in the study of human language processing, and, more recently, have been leveraged for cognitively enhancing neural language models. A critical limitation of existing corpora is that they often lack diversity, comprising primarily native speakers. In this study, we expand the eye-tracking-while-reading dataset CopCo, which initially included only Danish L1 readers with and without dyslexia, by incorporating a new dataset of non-native readers with diverse L1 backgrounds. Thus, the extended CopCo corpus constitutes the first eye-tracking-while-reading dataset encompassing neurotypical L1 and L1 readers with dyslexia as well as non-native readers, all reading the same materials. We first provide extensive descriptive statistics of the extended CopCo corpus. Second, we investigate how different degrees of diversity of the training data affect a state-of-the-art generative model of eye movements in reading. Finally, we use this scanpath generation model for gaze-augmented language modeling and investigate the impact of diversity in the training data on the model’s performance on a range of NLP downstream tasks. |
| Published |
European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2024 |
| Type |
Conference paper |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2024 |
| CC license |
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