Controlling Reading Ease with Gaze-Guided Text Generation
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| author | Säuberli, Andreas Jepifanova, Darja Frassinelli, Diego Plank, Barbara |
| author_facet | Säuberli, Andreas Jepifanova, Darja Frassinelli, Diego Plank, Barbara |
| contents | The way our eyes move while reading can tell us about the cognitive effort required to process the text. In the present study, we use this fact to generate texts with controllable reading ease. Our method employs a model that predicts human gaze patterns to steer language model outputs towards eliciting certain reading behaviors. We evaluate the approach in an eye-tracking experiment with native and non-native speakers of English. The results demonstrate that the method is effective at making the generated texts easier or harder to read, measured both in terms of reading times and perceived difficulty of the texts. A statistical analysis reveals that the changes in reading behavior are mostly due to features that affect lexical processing. Possible applications of our approach include text simplification for information accessibility and generation of personalized educational material for language learning. |
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| spellingShingle | Controlling Reading Ease with Gaze-Guided Text Generation Säuberli, Andreas Jepifanova, Darja Frassinelli, Diego Plank, Barbara Computation and Language The way our eyes move while reading can tell us about the cognitive effort required to process the text. In the present study, we use this fact to generate texts with controllable reading ease. Our method employs a model that predicts human gaze patterns to steer language model outputs towards eliciting certain reading behaviors. We evaluate the approach in an eye-tracking experiment with native and non-native speakers of English. The results demonstrate that the method is effective at making the generated texts easier or harder to read, measured both in terms of reading times and perceived difficulty of the texts. A statistical analysis reveals that the changes in reading behavior are mostly due to features that affect lexical processing. Possible applications of our approach include text simplification for information accessibility and generation of personalized educational material for language learning. |
| title | Controlling Reading Ease with Gaze-Guided Text Generation |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.17781 |