Improving natural language processing tasks with human gaze-guided neural attention

E Sood, S Tannert, P Müller… - Advances in Neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
A lack of corpora has so far limited advances in integrating human gaze data as a
supervisory signal in neural attention mechanisms for natural language processing (NLP) …

Do transformer models show similar attention patterns to task-specific human gaze?

O Eberle, S Brandl, J Pilot… - Proceedings of the 60th …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Learned self-attention functions in state-of-the-art NLP models often correlate with human
attention. We investigate whether self-attention in large-scale pre-trained language models …

Sequence labelling and sequence classification with gaze: Novel uses of eye‐tracking data for Natural Language Processing

M Barrett, N Hollenstein - Language and Linguistics Compass, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Eye‐tracking data from reading provide a structured signal with a fine‐grained temporal
resolution which closely follows the sequential structure of the text. It is highly correlated with …

Eyetrans: Merging human and machine attention for neural code summarization

Y Zhang, J Li, Z Karas, A Bansal, TJJ Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Neural code summarization leverages deep learning models to automatically generate brief
natural language summaries of code snippets. The development of Transformer models has …

Relative importance in sentence processing

N Hollenstein, L Beinborn - arxiv preprint arxiv:2106.03471, 2021 - arxiv.org
Determining the relative importance of the elements in a sentence is a key factor for
effortless natural language understanding. For human language processing, we can …

The Copenhagen Corpus of eye tracking recordings from natural reading of Danish texts

N Hollenstein, M Barrett, M Björnsdóttir - arxiv preprint arxiv:2204.13311, 2022 - arxiv.org
Eye movement recordings from reading are one of the richest signals of human language
processing. Corpora of eye movements during reading of contextualized running text is a …

Generating image descriptions via sequential cross-modal alignment guided by human gaze

E Takmaz, S Pezzelle, L Beinborn… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
When speakers describe an image, they tend to look at objects before mentioning them. In
this paper, we investigate such sequential cross-modal alignment by modelling the image …

Towards best practices for leveraging human language processing signals for natural language processing

N Hollenstein, M Barrett, L Beinborn - Proceedings of the second …, 2020 - aclanthology.org
NLP models are imperfect and lack intricate capabilities that humans access automatically
when processing speech or reading a text. Human language processing data can be …

A survey on using gaze behaviour for natural language processing

S Mathias, D Kanojia, A Mishra… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Gaze behaviour has been used as a way to gather cognitive information for a number of
years. In this paper, we discuss the use of gaze behaviour in solving different tasks in natural …

Patterns of text readability in human and predicted eye movements

N Hollenstein, I Gonzalez-Dios… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
It has been shown that multilingual transformer models are able to predict human reading
behavior when fine-tuned on small amounts of eye tracking data. As the cumulated …