Dependency Parsing with your Eyes: Dependency Structure Predicts Eye Regressions During Reading

Alessandro Lopopolo; Stefan L. Frank; Antal van den Bosch; Roel M. Willems

Dependency Parsing with your Eyes: Dependency Structure Predicts Eye Regressions During Reading

Alessandro Lopopolo
, Stefan L. Frank
, Antal van den Bosch
, Roel M. Willems

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Abstract

Backward saccades during reading have been hypothesized to be involved in structural reanalysis, or to be related to the level of text difficulty. We test the hypothesis that backward saccades are involved in online syntactic analysis. If this is the case we expect that saccades will coincide, at least partially, with the edges of the relations computed by a dependency parser. In order to test this, we analyzed a large eye-tracking dataset collected while 102 participants read three short narrative texts. Our results show a relation between backward saccades and the syntactic structure of sentences.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	77-85
Publication status	Published - 7 Jun 2019
Externally published	Yes

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