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

TY - CHAP

T1 - Dependency Parsing with your Eyes

T2 - Dependency Structure Predicts Eye Regressions During Reading

AU - Lopopolo, Alessandro

AU - Frank, Stefan

AU - van den Bosch, A.

AU - Willems, Roel

PY - 2019/6/7

Y1 - 2019/6/7

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

M3 - Contribution to conference proceedings

SP - 77

EP - 85

BT - Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics

PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

CY - Minneapolis, Minnesota

ER -