Daniel Krakowczyk receiving the Best Short Paper Award ETRA for our paper on XAI for deep neural networks processing eye-tracking data: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

How stable are individual differences in sentence processing? 👀📖 Check out our new preprint "Measurement reliability of individual differences in sentence processing: A cross-methodological reading corpus and Bayesian analysis" with @iva_koncic, David R. Reich, and Lena Jäger!

Applications are now open for the eighth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology: vasishth.github.io/smlp2024/ Applications close April 1, 2024.

Happy to announce that we have two papers accepted at #EMNLP2023 main conference: 1) a diffusion model for generating synthetic eye movements in reading 2) using synthetic human-like eye movements to enhance NLU. Congratulations to Lena S. Bolliger, David R. Reich, Patrick Haller, et al.!

Check out the pre-print of our #EMNLP2023 paper on ScanDL, a diffusion model that generates human-like eye movements on texts. With David R. Reich, Patrick Haller, Deborah Jakobi, Paul Prasse, and Lena Jäger. arxiv.org/abs/2310.15587

For all language & maths lovers: check out this very attractive job opening on the mathematical foundations of language, with a focus on stochastic processes Universität Zürich's Department of Comparative Language Science, and become part of evolvinglanguage.ch! For details, see ivs.uzh.ch/en/jobs/Lectur…

Congratulations to Cui Ding who was awarded with the Semester Prize by the president of Universität Zürich for her Master's thesis Zurich Computational Linguistics Group co-supervises by Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox on Mouse Tracking for Reading, a low-cost alternative to eye-tracking. Find out more here: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Check out this attractive job opening for a faculty position in Computational Cognitive Science in Edinburgh: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Find out more about Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR), a new experimental method for investigating incremental language processing, developed by Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox and Cui Ding that has just been published in JourMemLang sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to Deborah Jakobi and Daniel Krakowczyk for receiving the Best Student Late Breaking Work award ETRA for their paper "Reporting Eye-Tracking Data Quality: Towards a New Standard". Check out their paper dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

👀📖 Excited to share our #ACL2024 findings paper on how language models emulate readers with specific cognitive capacities. See 🧵 We'll present this work next week in Bangkok during the findings poster session 4 and at CMCL. w/Lena S. Bolliger and Lena Jäger

📢 Excited to share the release of EMTeC, the Eye Movements on Machine-Generated Texts Corpus! w/ Patrick Haller, I. Cretton, David R. Reich, Tannon Kew, and Lena Jäger Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2408.04289 Data: github.com/DiLi-Lab/EMTeC/

Help us crowd sourcing eyetracking glasses to support labs across Europe and beyond to contribute to a multilingual eyetracking-while-reading data collection (see multipleye.eu)! Donate here wemakeit.com/projects/the-t…

Do you want to find out what your dominant eye is? Check out this video youtube.com/watch?v=dBCU6W… prepared by the MulitplEYE COST Action (multipleye.eu).

Excited for tomorrow to present our work on LLM response stability in the context of political bias assessment at Conference on Language Modeling! Stop by between 9 and 11 at poster #39. Joint work w/Jannis Vamvas and Lena Jäger. 🔗 openreview.net/pdf?id=7xUtka9…