Learning where to look: modeling eye movements in reading

  • Authors:
  • Mattias Nilsson;Joakim Nivre

  • Affiliations:
  • Uppsala University;Uppsala University

  • Venue:
  • CoNLL '09 Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We propose a novel machine learning task that consists in learning to predict which words in a text are fixated by a reader. In a first pilot experiment, we show that it is possible to out-perform a majority baseline using a transition-based model with a logistic regression classifier and a very limited set of features. We also show that the model is capable of capturing frequency effects on eye movements observed in human readers.