EEG2TEXT-CN: An Exploratory Study of Open-Vocabulary Chinese Text-EEG Alignment via Large Language Model and Contrastive Learning on ChineseEEG

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Main Authors: Lu, Jacky Tai-Yu, Chiang, Jung, Chen, Chi-Sheng, Tung, Anna Nai-Yun, Hu, Hsiang Wei, Cheng, Yuan Chiao
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author Lu, Jacky Tai-Yu
Chiang, Jung
Chen, Chi-Sheng
Tung, Anna Nai-Yun
Hu, Hsiang Wei
Cheng, Yuan Chiao
author_facet Lu, Jacky Tai-Yu
Chiang, Jung
Chen, Chi-Sheng
Tung, Anna Nai-Yun
Hu, Hsiang Wei
Cheng, Yuan Chiao
contents We propose EEG2TEXT-CN, which, to the best of our knowledge, represents one of the earliest open-vocabulary EEG-to-text generation frameworks tailored for Chinese. Built on a biologically grounded EEG encoder (NICE-EEG) and a compact pretrained language model (MiniLM), our architecture aligns multichannel brain signals with natural language representations via masked pretraining and contrastive learning. Using a subset of the ChineseEEG dataset, where each sentence contains approximately ten Chinese characters aligned with 128-channel EEG recorded at 256 Hz, we segment EEG into per-character embeddings and predict full sentences in a zero-shot setting. The decoder is trained with teacher forcing and padding masks to accommodate variable-length sequences. Evaluation on over 1,500 training-validation sentences and 300 held-out test samples shows promising lexical alignment, with a best BLEU-1 score of 6.38\%. While syntactic fluency remains a challenge, our findings demonstrate the feasibility of non-phonetic, cross-modal language decoding from EEG. This work opens a new direction in multilingual brain-to-text research and lays the foundation for future cognitive-language interfaces in Chinese.
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spellingShingle EEG2TEXT-CN: An Exploratory Study of Open-Vocabulary Chinese Text-EEG Alignment via Large Language Model and Contrastive Learning on ChineseEEG
Lu, Jacky Tai-Yu
Chiang, Jung
Chen, Chi-Sheng
Tung, Anna Nai-Yun
Hu, Hsiang Wei
Cheng, Yuan Chiao
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Multimedia
Neurons and Cognition
We propose EEG2TEXT-CN, which, to the best of our knowledge, represents one of the earliest open-vocabulary EEG-to-text generation frameworks tailored for Chinese. Built on a biologically grounded EEG encoder (NICE-EEG) and a compact pretrained language model (MiniLM), our architecture aligns multichannel brain signals with natural language representations via masked pretraining and contrastive learning. Using a subset of the ChineseEEG dataset, where each sentence contains approximately ten Chinese characters aligned with 128-channel EEG recorded at 256 Hz, we segment EEG into per-character embeddings and predict full sentences in a zero-shot setting. The decoder is trained with teacher forcing and padding masks to accommodate variable-length sequences. Evaluation on over 1,500 training-validation sentences and 300 held-out test samples shows promising lexical alignment, with a best BLEU-1 score of 6.38\%. While syntactic fluency remains a challenge, our findings demonstrate the feasibility of non-phonetic, cross-modal language decoding from EEG. This work opens a new direction in multilingual brain-to-text research and lays the foundation for future cognitive-language interfaces in Chinese.
title EEG2TEXT-CN: An Exploratory Study of Open-Vocabulary Chinese Text-EEG Alignment via Large Language Model and Contrastive Learning on ChineseEEG
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Multimedia
Neurons and Cognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00854