Fine-Grained Prediction of Reading Comprehension from Eye Movements

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Auteurs principaux: Shubi, Omer, Meiri, Yoav, Hadar, Cfir Avraham, Berzak, Yevgeni
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author Shubi, Omer
Meiri, Yoav
Hadar, Cfir Avraham
Berzak, Yevgeni
author_facet Shubi, Omer
Meiri, Yoav
Hadar, Cfir Avraham
Berzak, Yevgeni
contents Can human reading comprehension be assessed from eye movements in reading? In this work, we address this longstanding question using large-scale eyetracking data over textual materials that are geared towards behavioral analyses of reading comprehension. We focus on a fine-grained and largely unaddressed task of predicting reading comprehension from eye movements at the level of a single question over a passage. We tackle this task using three new multimodal language models, as well as a battery of prior models from the literature. We evaluate the models' ability to generalize to new textual items, new participants, and the combination of both, in two different reading regimes, ordinary reading and information seeking. The evaluations suggest that although the task is highly challenging, eye movements contain useful signals for fine-grained prediction of reading comprehension. Code and data will be made publicly available.
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spellingShingle Fine-Grained Prediction of Reading Comprehension from Eye Movements
Shubi, Omer
Meiri, Yoav
Hadar, Cfir Avraham
Berzak, Yevgeni
Computation and Language
Can human reading comprehension be assessed from eye movements in reading? In this work, we address this longstanding question using large-scale eyetracking data over textual materials that are geared towards behavioral analyses of reading comprehension. We focus on a fine-grained and largely unaddressed task of predicting reading comprehension from eye movements at the level of a single question over a passage. We tackle this task using three new multimodal language models, as well as a battery of prior models from the literature. We evaluate the models' ability to generalize to new textual items, new participants, and the combination of both, in two different reading regimes, ordinary reading and information seeking. The evaluations suggest that although the task is highly challenging, eye movements contain useful signals for fine-grained prediction of reading comprehension. Code and data will be made publicly available.
title Fine-Grained Prediction of Reading Comprehension from Eye Movements
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04484