Prof. Dr. Lena A. Jäger

Lena A. Jäger, Prof. Dr.

Associate Professor
Digital Linguistics

Phone: +41 44 635 71 47
Room number: AND 2.52

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Teaching

	FS 2026	Advanced Machine Learning Eye Tracking and NLP Text Technology / Digital Linguistics Colloquium
	HS 2025	Quantitative Methods Introduction to Language Data Processing Lectures Text Technology / Digital Linguistics Colloquium
	FS 2025	Advanced Machine Learning Eye tracking: Experiment design and machine learning methods Introduction to Computational Linguistics 2 Text Technology / Digital Linguistics Colloquium Interdisciplinary Introduction to Machine Learning - Exercises
	FS 2024	Advanced Machine Learning Eye tracking: Experiment design and machine learning methods Introduction to Computational Linguistics 2 Interdisciplinary Introduction to Machine Learning (ML) (School for Transdisciplinary Studies)
	HS 2023	Quantitative Methods Introduction to Language Data Processing Ringvorlesung: Das erste Wort (Program)
	FS 2023	Introduction to Computational Linguistics
	FS 2023	Advanced Machine Learning Eye tracking: Experiment design and machine learning methods
	HS 2022	Quantitative Methods Introduction to Language Data Processing Machine Learning - eine interdisziplinäre Einführung (School for Transdisciplinary Studies)
	FS 2022	Advanced Machine Learning Eye tracking: Experiment design and machine learning methods Interdisciplinary Reading Seminar (DSI PhD Excellence Program)
	HS 2021	Quantitative Methods Introduction to Language Data Processing Interdisciplinary Reading Seminar (DSI PhD Excellence Program)
	FS 2021	Computational models of human language processing Eye tracking: Experimental design and ML-based data analysis
	HS 2020	Quantitative Methods Introduction to Language Data Processing

Publications

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Publications

2026
- Jakobi, D. N., Reich, D. R., Prasse, P., Hofmann, J. M., Bolliger, L. S., & Jäger, L. A. (2026). Eye-tracking-while-reading: A living survey of datasets with open library support Behavior Research Methods, 58, 263. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-026-03126-6
- Deng, S., Ding, C., Reich, D. R., Prasse, P., & Jäger, L. A. (2026). Eyettention II: A dual-sequence architecture for modeling fixation location, within-word landing position, and fixation duration in reading Behavior Research Methods, 58, 257. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-026-03118-6
- Müller, M.-L., Büth, C., Jakobi, D. N., Krakowczyk, D. G., Pavlinušic Vilus, E., Shaitarova, A., & Jäger, L. A. (2026). Preprocessing Eye-Tracking Data for Reading: A Community Survey on Practices, Challenges, and Needs (A. Chetouani & A. Vilanueva, Eds.; p. 97). ACM Digital library. https://doi.org/10.1145/3797246.3805480
- Huber, M., Reich, D. R., & Jäger, L. A. (2026). Fixation Sequences as Time Series: A Topological Approach to Dyslexia Detection (A. Chetouani & A. Vilanueva, Eds.; p. 12). ACM Digital library. https://doi.org/10.1145/3797246.3803045
- Thouvenin, F., Jäger, L., Donzé, J., Ammann, V., Deutschmann, L., Hänni, L., Jobareth, M., & Marchewka, A. (2026). Training von KI-Modellen und Urheberrecht: Technische Grundlagen, Stand der Diskussion und Lösungsansätze sic! : Zeitschrift für Immaterialgüter-, Informations- und Wettbewerbsrecht, 30, 105–143. https://www.legalis.ch/de/sic/sic-artikel/?training-von-ki-modellen-und-urheberrecht-technische-grundlagen-stand-der-diskussion-und-loesungsansaetze&id=22631
- Hollenstein, N., Müller, M.-L., Jakobi, D. N., Ding, C., Stegenwallner-Schütz, M., Matić, A., Pavlinušić Vilus, E., Kasperė, R., Bondar, A., Filip, M., Frank, S., Hofmann, J., Krosness, T., Lõo, K., Nedergaard, J., Tschirner, C., & Jäger, L. A. (2026). MultiplEYE Data Collection Guidelines PsychArchives. https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.21734
- Kasperė, R., Bondar, A., Nisioi, S., Stegenwallner-Schütz, M., Knudsen, H. B. S., Matić, A., Pavlinušić Vilus, E., Klimek-Jankowska, D., Tschirner, C., Soliva, N. B., Jakobi, D. N., Ding, C., Romi, D. A., Acarturk, C., Agdler, M., Alexandru, A. M., Ansari, M. F., Arcidiacono, A., Barisa, E. A. V., … Jäger, L. A. (2026). The MultiplEYE Text Corpus: Towards a Diverse and Ever-Expanding Multilingual Text Corpus 6706–6721. https://doi.org/10.63317/42gkpf6a6x2x

2025
- Haller, P., Ding, C., Stegenwallner-Schütz, M., Reich, D. R., Koncic, I., Makowski, S., & Jäger, L. A. (2025). Replicate Me if You Can: Assessing Measurement Reliability of Individual Differences in Reading Across Measurement Occasions and Methods Cognitive Science, 50, e70121. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70121
- Shubi, O., Reich, D. R., Grutke Klein, K., Angel, Y., Prasse, P., Jäger, L., & Berzak, Y. (2025). EyeBench: Predictive Modeling from Eye Movements in Reading (No. 39). online.
- Ding, C., Yin, Y., Jäger, L., & Wilcox, E. (2025). Modeling Bottom-up Information Quality during Language Processing (C. Christodoulopoulos, T. Chakraborty, C. Rose, & V. Peng, Eds.; pp. 11709–11721). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.592
- Bolliger, L. S., & Jäger, L. (2025). Genre Matters: How Text Types Interact with Decoding Strategies and Lexical Predictors in Shaping Reading Behavior (C. Christodoulopoulos, T. Chakraborty, C. Rose, & V. Peng, Eds.; pp. 7470–7487). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.379
- Huber, M., Schnider, P., & Kalisnik Hintz, S. (2025). AuToMATo: An Out-Of-The-Box Persistence-Based Clustering Algorithm Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 5280. https://openreview.net/forum?id=Qd7H5mAbzV
- Haller, P., Vamvas, J., Sennrich, R., & Jäger, L. (2025). Leveraging In-Context Learning for Political Bias Testing of LLMs (W. Che, J. Nabende, E. Shutova, & M. T. Pilehvar, Eds.; No. 63; pp. 24718–24738). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.1205
- Siegelman, N., Schroeder, S., Bao, Y. B., Acartürk, C., Agrawal, N., Bolliger, L. S., Brasser, J., Campos-Rojas, C., Drieghe, D., Filipović Đurđević, D., Goldina, S., Ibáñez Orellana, R., Jäger, L., Jóhannesson, Ó. I., Khare, A., Kharlamov, N., Knudsen, H. B. S., Kristjánsson, Á., Lee, C. E., … et al. (2025). Wave 2 of the Multilingual Eye-Movement Corpus (MECO): New text reading data across languages Scientific Data, 12, 1183. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05453-3
- Wilcox, E., Ding, C., Acampa, G., Pimentel, T., Warstadt, A., & Regev, T. I. (2025). Using Information Theory to Characterize Prosodic Typology: The Case of Tone, Pitch-Accent and Stress-Accent In W. Che, J. Nakatumba-Nabende, E. Shutova, & M. T. Pilehvar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Vol. 1: Long Papers (pp. 24439–24451). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.1192
- Bolliger, L. S., Haller, P., Cretton, I. C. R., Reich, D. R., Kew, T., & Jäger, L. (2025). EMTeC: A Corpus of Eye Movements on Machine-Generated Texts Behavior Research Methods, 57, 189. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02677-4
- Dziemian, S., Bujia, G., Prasse, P., Barańczuk-Turska, Z., Jäger, L. A., Kamienkowski, J. E., & Langer, N. (2025). Saliency Models Reveal Reduced Top-Down Attention in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Naturalistic Eye-Tracking Study Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 3, 192–204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaacop.2024.03.001
- Jakobi, D. N., Reich, D. R., Prasse, P., & Jäger, L. A. (2025). Neural Additive Models Uncover Predictive Gaze Features in Reading Proceedings of the Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715669.3723117
- Bondar, A., Reich, D. R., & Jäger, L. A. (2025). CoLAGaze: A Corpus of Eye Movements for Linguistic Acceptability (Y. Sugano, M. Khamis, A. Chetouani, & et al, Eds.; No. 9; p. 9). ACM Digital library. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715669.3723120
- Prasse, P., Reich, D. R., Chwastek, J., Makowski, S., Jäger, L. A., & Scheffer, T. (2025). Detection of Alcohol Inebriation from Eye Movements using Remote and Wearable Eye Trackers Proceedings of the Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715669.3723109
- Jakobi, D. N., Stegenwallner-Schütz, M., Hollenstein, N., Ding, C., Kasperė, R., Matić Škorić, A., Pavlinušić Vilus, E., Frank, S., Müller, M.-L., Jensen De López, K. M., Kharlamov, N., Knudsen, H. B. S., Berzak, Y., Lion, E., Sekerina, I., Acarturk, C., ANSARI, M. F., Harezlak, K., Kasprowski, P., … Jäger, L. (2025). MultiplEYE: Creating a Multilingual Eye-Tracking-While-Reading Corpus (Y. Sugano, M. Khamis, A. Chetouani, L. Sidenmark, & A. Bruno, Eds.; p. 111). ACM Digital library. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715669.3726843
- Krakowczyk, D. G., Reich, D. R., Säuberli, A., Škrjanec, I., Cretton, I. C. R., Jakobi, D. N., Nisioi, S., Prasse, P., & Jäger, L. A. (2025). The More the Merrier: Boost Your Dataset Visibility and Discover Eye-Tracking Datasets with pymovements (Y. Sugano, M. Khamis, A. Chetouani, L. Sidenmark, & A. Bruno, Eds.; p. 63). ACM Digital library. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715669.3726810
- Reich, D. R., Ding, C., Bolliger, L. S., Haller, P., Prasse, P., & Jäger, L. A. (2025). Proxy-Based Pre-Training for Eye-Tracking Applications (Y. Sugano, M. Khamis, A. Chetouani, L. Sidenmark, & A. Bruno, Eds.; p. 26). ACM Digital library. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715669.3723113
- Reich, D. R., Prasse, P., & Jäger, L. A. (2025). Evaluating Gaze Event Detection Algorithms: Impacts on Machine Learning-based Classification and Psycholinguistic Statistical Modeling Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9, ETRA10. https://doi.org/10.1145/3725835
- Bolliger, L. S., Reich, D. R., & Jäger, L. A. (2025). ScanDL 2.0: A Generative Model of Eye Movements in Reading Synthesizing Scanpaths and Fixation Durations Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9, ETRA05. https://doi.org/10.1145/3725830
- Jakobi, D. N., Kern, T., Reich, D. R., Haller, P., & Jäger, L. (2025). PoTeC: a German Naturalistic Eye-Tracking-While-Reading Corpus Behavior Research Methods, 57, 211. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02536-8
- Oğuz, M., Ding, C., Wilcox, E. G., & Fuchs, Z. (2025). Using MoTR to Probe Agreement Processing in Russian Open Mind, 9, 1682–1710. https://doi.org/10.1162/OPMI.a.35
- Bondar, A., Reich, D. R., & Jäger, L. (2025). AlEYEgnment: Leveraging Eye-Tracking-While-Reading to Align Language Models with Human Preferences (C. Acarturk, J. Nasir, B. Can, & Ç. Çöltekin, Eds.; No. 1; pp. 58–70). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2025.gaze4nlp-1.8/
- Brasser, J., Tschirner, C., Stegenwallner-Schütz, M., Jakobi, D. N., & Jäger, L. (2025). Predicting Children’s Reading Comprehension Through Eye Movements: Insights from Visual Search and Interpretable Machine Learning (Y. Sugano, M. Khamis, A. Chetouani, L. Sidenmark, & A. Bruno, Eds.; p. 116). ACM Digital library. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715669.3726844
- Kuperman, V., Schroeder, S., Acartürk, C., Agrawal, N., Alexandre, D. M., Bolliger, L. S., Brasser, J., Campos-Rojas, C., Drieghe, D., et al, Reich, D. R., & Jäger, L. (2025). New data on text reading in English as a second language: The Wave 2 expansion of the Multilingual Eye-Movement Corpus (MECO) Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 47, 677–695. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263125000105

2024
- Bolliger, L. S., Haller, P., & Jäger, L. A. (2024). On the alignment of LM language generation and human language comprehension 217–231. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.blackboxnlp-1.14
- Wilcox, E. G., Ding, C., Sachan, M., & Jäger, L. A. (2024). Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR): A new naturalistic incremental processing measurement tool Journal of Memory and Language, 138, 104535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2024.104534
- Haller, P., Vamvas, J., & Jäger, L. A. (2024). Yes, no, maybe? Revisiting language models’ response stability under paraphrasing for the assessment of political leaning. online. https://openreview.net/forum?id=7xUtka9ck9
- Haller, P., Bolliger, L. S., & Jäger, L. A. (2024). Language models emulate certain cognitive profiles: An investigation of how predictability measures interact with individual differences (No. 62). 7878–7892. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.469
- Wu, G., Bolliger, L. S., Reich, D. R., & Jäger, L. A. (2024). An Eye Opener Regarding Task-Based Text Gradient Saliency (T. Kuribayashi, G. Rambelli, E. Takmaz, & et al, Eds.; pp. 255–263). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.cmcl-1.22
- Haller, P., Bolliger, L. S., & Jäger, L. A. (2024). On language models’ cognitive biases in reading time prediction online. https://openreview.net/forum?id=io5QAglkER
- Kiegeland, S., Reich, D., Cotterell, R., Jäger, L., & Wilcox, E. (2024). The Pupil Becomes the Master: Eye-Tracking Feedback for Tuning LLMs online. https://openreview.net/pdf?id=8oLUcBgKua
- Alakmeh, T., Reich, D., Jäger, L., & Fritz, T. (2024). Predicting code comprehension: a novel approach to align human gaze with code using deep neural networks (Vol. 1, No. FSE, Article 88). 1982–2004. https://doi.org/10.1145/3660795
- Jakobi, D. N., Krakowczyk, D. G., & Jäger, L. A. (2024). Reporting Eye-Tracking Data Quality: Towards a New Standard 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3649902.3655658
- Reich, D. R., Deng, S., Björnsdóttir, M., Jäger, L. A., & Hollenstein, N. (2024). Reading Does Not Equal Reading: Comparing, Simulating and Exploiting Reading Behavior Across Populations 13586–13594. https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1187/
- Säuberli, A., Holzknecht, F., Haller, P., Deilen, S., Schiffl, L., Hansen-Schirra, S., & Ebling, S. (2024). Digital Comprehensibility Assessment of Simplified Texts among Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (CHI ’24). 527. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3642570
- Prasse, P., Reich, D. R., Makowski, S., Scheffer, T., & Jäger, L. A. (2024). Improving cognitive-state analysis from eye gaze with synthetic eye-movement data Computers & Graphics, 119, 103901. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cag.2024.103901
- Müller, M.-L., Jakobi, D. N., Kasperė, R., Hollenstein, N., Jäger, L. A., & Stegenwallner-Schütz, M. (2024). Data Management Plan (DMP) for COST Action “MultiplEYE” (CA21131). Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie. https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.14081
- Müller, M.-L., Kasperė, R., Jakobi, D. N., Bradshaw, L., Hollenstein, N., & Jäger, L. A. (2024). MultiplEYE Data Sharing Policy PsychArchives. https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.14137
- Deng, S., Prasse, P., Reich, D. R., Scheffer, T., & Jäger, L. A. (2024). Fine-Tuning Pre-Trained Language Models with Gaze Supervision 217–224. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.acl-short.21

2023
- Bolliger, L. S., Reich, D. R., Haller, P., Jakobi, D. N., Prasse, P., & Jäger, L. A. (2023). ScanDL: A Diffusion Model for Generating Synthetic Scanpaths on Texts (H. Bouamor, J. Pino, & K. Bali, Eds.; pp. 15513–15538). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.960
- Palmović, M., Jäger, L. A., & Hollenstein, N. (2023). Editorial: Eye-Tracking while Reading for Psycholinguistic and Computational Models of Language Comprehension Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1326408. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1326408
- Ding, C. (2023). Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR): A New Incremental Processing Paradigm (Master’s thesis, University of Zurich) https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-259944
- Prasse, P., Reich, D. R., Makowski, S., Ahn, S., Scheffer, T., & Jäger, L. A. (2023). SP-EyeGAN: Generating Synthetic Eye Movement Data with Generative Adversarial Networks Proceedings of the Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3588015.3588410
- Krakowczyk, D. G., Prasse, P., Reich, D. R., Lapuschkin, S., Scheffer, T., & Jäger, L. A. (2023). Bridging the Gap: Gaze Events as Interpretable Concepts to Explain Deep Neural Sequence Models (E. Kasneci, F. Shic, & M. Khamis, Eds.; p. 3). ACM Digital library. https://doi.org/10.1145/3588015.3588412
- Deng, S., Reich, D. R., Prasse, P., Haller, P., Scheffer, T., & Jäger, L. A. (2023). Eyettention: An Attention-based Dual-Sequence Model for Predicting Human Scanpaths during Reading Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7, 162. https://doi.org/10.1145/3591131
- Nehring, J., Ahmed, A., & Jäger, L. A. (2023). Module Selection: A new Task for Dialog Systems https://www.dfki.de/web/forschung/projekte-publikationen/publikation/13137
- Hollenstein, N., Tröndle, M., Plomecka, M., Kiegeland, S., Özyurt, Y., Jäger, L. A., & Langer, N. (2023). The ZuCo benchmark on cross-subject reading task classification with EEG and eye-tracking data. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1028824. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1028824
- Deng, S., Prasse, P., Reich, D. R., Scheffer, T., & Jäger, L. A. (2023). Pre-Trained Language Models Augmented with Synthetic Scanpaths for Natural Language Understanding (H. Bouamor, J. Pino, & K. Bali, Eds.; pp. 6500–6507). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.400
- Makowski, S., Prasse, P., Jäger, L. A., & Scheffer, T. (2023). Detection of Drowsiness and Impending Microsleep from Eye Movements NeuRIPS 2023 Workshop on Gaze Meets ML, New Orleans. https://openreview.net/forum?id=TaLDynXjZa
- Krakowczyk, D. G., Reich, D. R., Chwastek, J., Jakobi, D. N., Prasse, P., Süss, A., Turuta, O., Kasprowski, P., & Jäger, L. A. (2023). pymovements: A Python Package for Eye Movement Data Processing (E. Kasneci, F. Shic, & M. Khamis, Eds.; p. 53). ACM Digital library. https://doi.org/10.1145/3588015.3590134

2022
- Krakowczyk, D., Reich, D. R., Prasse, P., Lapuschkin, S., Scheffer, T., & Jäger, L. A. (2022). Selection of XAI methods matters: Evaluation of feature attribution methods for oculomotoric biometric identification (210:66-97). 1–31. https://proceedings.mlr.press/v210/krakowczyk23a
- Makowski, S., Prasse, P., Jäger, L. A., & Scheffer, T. (2022). Oculomotoric Biometric Identification under the Influence of Alcohol and Fatigue 10007970. https://doi.org/10.1109/ijcb54206.2022.10007970
- Bradshaw, L., Chodroff, E., Jäger, L., & Dellwo, V. (2022). Fundamental Frequency Variability over Time in Telephone Interactions (H. Ko & J. H. L. Hansen, Eds.; pp. 101–105). ISCA. https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2022-10669
- Deng, S., Prasse, P., Reich, D. R., Dziemian, S., Stegenwallner-Schütz, M., Krakowczyk, D. G., Makowski, S., Langer, N., Scheffer, T., & Jäger, L. A. (2022). Detection of ADHD based on eye movements during natural viewing 403–418. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26422-1_25
- Reich, D. R., Prasse, P., Tschirner, C., Haller, P., Goldhammer, F., & Jäger, L. A. (2022). Inferring Native and Non-Native Human Reading Comprehension and Subjective Text Difficulty from Scanpaths in Reading 23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517031.3529639
- Prasse, P., Reich, D. R., Makowski, S., Jäger, L. A., & Scheffer, T. (2022). Fairness in Oculomotoric Biometric Identification (F. Shic, E. Kasneci, M. Khamis, & et al, Eds.; p. 22). ACM Digital library. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517031.3529633
- Haller, P., Säuberli, A., Kiener, S. E., Pan, J., Yan, M., & Jäger, L. A. (2022). Eye-tracking based classification of Mandarin Chinese readers with and without dyslexia using neural sequence models (S. Štajner, H. Saggion, D. Ferrés, & et al, Eds.; pp. 111–118). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.tsar-1.10
- Hollenstein, N., Gonzalez-Dios, I., Beinborn, L., & Jäger, L. A. (2022). Patterns of text readability in human and predicted eye movements Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.cogalex-1.1

2021
- Meister, C., Pimentel, T., Haller, P., Jäger, L. A., Cotterell, R., & Levy, R. (2021). Revisiting the Uniform Information Density Hypothesis (M.-F. Moens, X. Huang, L. Specia, & S. W. Yih, Eds.; pp. 963–980). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.74
- Thouvenin, F., Christen, M., Bernstein, A., Braun Binder, N., Burri, T., Donnay, K., Jäger, L. A., Jaffé, M., Krauthammer, M., Lohmann, M., Mätzener, A., Mützel, S., Obrecht, L., Ritter, N., Spielkamp, M., & Volz, S. (2021). Positionspapier: Ein Rechtsrahmen für Künstliche Intelligenz 1–7. https://www.dsi.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:3a0cb402-c3b3-4360-9332-f800895fdc58/dsi-strategy-lab-21-de.pdf
- Makowski, S., Prasse, P., Reich, D. R., Krakowczyk, D., Jäger, L. A., & Scheffer, T. (2021). DeepEyedentificationLive: Oculomotoric Biometric Identification and Presentation-Attack Detection using Deep Neural Networks IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, 3, 506–518. https://doi.org/10.1109/tbiom.2021.3116875
- Hollenstein, N., Pirovano, F., Zhang, C., Jäger, L. A., & Beinborn, L. (2021). Multilingual Language Models Predict Human Reading Behavior (K. Toutanova, A. Rumshisky, L. Zettlemoyer, D. Hakkani-Tur, I. Beltagy, S. Bethard, R. Cotterell, T. Chakraborty, & Y. Zhou, Eds.; pp. 106–123). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.10

2020

Interference patterns in subject-verb agreement and reflexives revisited: A large-sample study, Journal of Memory and Language
Lena A. Jäger, Daniela Mertzen, Julie A. Van Dyke, and Shravan Vasishth
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On the Relationship between Eye Tracking Resolution and Performance of Oculomotoric Biometric Identification, Procedia Computer Science
Paul Prasse, Lena A. Jäger, Silvia Makowski, Moritz Feuerpfeil, and Tobias Scheffer
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Discriminative Viewer Identification using Generative Models of Eye Gaze, Procedia Computer Science
Silvia Makowski, Lena A. Jäger, Lisa Schwetlick, Hans Trukenbrod, Ralf Engbert, and Tobias Scheffer
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Biometric Identification and Presentation-Attack Detection using Micro- and Macro-Movements of the Eyes, IJCB 2020
Silvia Makowski, Lena A. Jäger, Paul Prasse, and Tobias Scheffer
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2019

Deep Eyedentification: Biometric Identification using Micro-Movements of the Eye, ECML/PKDD 2019
Lena A. Jäger, Silvia Makowski, Paul Prasse, Sascha Liehr, Maximilian Seidler, and Tobias Scheffer
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Real-time Dynamic Strain Sensing in Optical Fibers using Artificial Neural Networks, Optics Express
Sascha Liehr, Lena A. Jäger, Christos Karapanagiotis, Sven Münzenberger, and Stefan Kowarik
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A discriminative model for identifying readers and assessing text comprehension from eye movements, ECML PKDD 2018
Silvia Makowski, Lena A. Jäger, Ahmed Abdelwahab, Niels Landwehr, and Tobias Scheffer
[pdf |http | ArXiv-preprint | bib]

Antecedent Access Mechanisms in Pronoun Processing: Evidence from the N400, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
Sol Lago, Anna Namyst, Lena A. Jäger, and Ellen Lau.
[ http | bib]

The Effect of Prominence and Cue Association in Retrieval Processes: A Computational Account, Cognitive Science
Felix Engelmann, Lena A. Jäger, and Shravan Vasishth
[ http | bib | shiny app]

2018

Overt Language Production of German Past Participles: Investigating (Ir-)Regularity, Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
Tina Marusch, Lena Jäger, Leander Neiß, Lyndsey Nickels, Frank Burchert, and Isabell Wartenburger
[ http | bib]

The Statistical Significance Filter Leads to Overoptimistic Expectations of Replicability, Journal of Memory and Language
Shravan Vasishth, Daniela Mertzen, Lena A. Jäger, and Andrew Gelman.
[ http | bib]

2017

Feature Overwriting as a Finite Mixture Process: Evidence from Comprehension Data, MathPsych 50/ ICCM 15
Shravan Vasishth, Lena A. Jäger, and Bruno Nicenboim
[ ArXiv-preprint | bib]

Retrieval and Encoding Interference: Cross-Linguistic Evidence from Anaphor Processing, Frontiers in Psychology
Anna Laurinavichyute, Lena A. Jäger, Yulia Akinina, Jennifer Roß, and Olga Dragoy
[ http | bib]

Similarity-based Interference in Sentence Comprehension: Literature Review and Bayesian Meta-Analysis, Journal of Memory and Language
Lena A. Jäger, Felix Engelmann, and Shravan Vasishth
[ pdf | http | bib | code | shiny app ]

2015

The Subject-Relative Advantage in Chinese: Evidence for Expectation-Based Processing, Journal of Memory and Language
Lena Jäger, Zhong Chen, Qiang Li, Chien-Jer Charles Lin, and Shravan Vasishth
[ http | pdf | bib | data and R code | stimuli]

Cue Confusion and Distractor Prominence Explain Inconsistent Effects of Retrieval Interference in Human Sentence Processing, ICCM 15
Felix Engelmann, Lena Jäger, and Shravan Vasishth
[ pdf | bib]

Teasing Apart Retrieval and Encoding Interference in the Processing of Anaphors, Frontiers in Psychology
Lena A. Jäger, Lena Benz, Jens Roeser, Brian W. Dillon, and Shravan Vasishth
[ http | bib | data and R code ]

Retrieval Interference in Reflexive Processing: Experimental Evidence from Mandarin, and Computational Modeling, Frontiers in Psychology
Lena A. Jäger, Felix Engelmann, and Shravan Vasishth
[ http | bib | data and R code| shiny app]

Working Memory and Prediction in Human Sentence Parsing. Cross-linguistic evidence from anaphoric dependencies and relative clauses, PhD dissertation
Lena A. Jäger
[ pdf | bib]

2012

Uncertainty Reduction as a Predictor of Reading Difficulty in Chinese Relative Clauses, IsCLL
Zhong Chen, Lena Jäger, and John Hale
[ pdf | bib]

How Structure-Sensitive is the Parser? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese, Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory
Zhong Chen, Lena Jäger, and Shravan Vasishth
[ pdf | http | bib]

Conference talks and posters (without proceedings paper)

MultiplEYE: A multi-lab effort to establish new standards for the collection and pre-processing of multi-lingual eyetracking-while-reading data, X-PPL 2023 (talk)
Deborah N. Jakobi, Maroš Filip, Ramunė Kasperė, Nora Hollenstein, Lena A. Jäger & The MultiplEYE Team

The MultiplEYE Reading Corpus, X-PPL 2023 (poster)
Deborah N. Jakobi, Maroš Filip, Ramunė Kasperė, Nora Hollenstein, Lena A. Jäger & The MultiplEYE Team
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Measurement Reliability of Individual Differences in Sentence Processing, AMLaP 2022
Patrick Haller, Iva Koncic, David R. Reich, Chiara Tschirner, Silvia Makowski, and Lena A. Jäger

Inferring Reading Comprehension from Eye Movements, AMLaP 2022
David R. Reich, Paul Prasse, Chiara Tschirner, Patrick Haller, Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz, Frank Goldhammer, and Lena A. Jäger

Using Convolutional Neural Networks for the Prediction of Groundwater Levels, EGU General Assembly 2020
Maximilian Nölscher, Hartmut Häntze, Stefan Broda, Lena A. Jäger, Paul Prasse, and Silvia Makowski

Contrasting Facilitation Profiles for Agreement and Reflexives Revisited. A Large-Scale Empirical Evaluation of the Cue-Based Retrieval Model, AMLaP 2018
Lena A. Jäger, Daniela Mertzen, Julie A. Van Dyke, and Shravan Vasishth

The Statistical Significance Filter Leads to Overoptimistic Expectations of Replicability, AMLaP 2018

Type M Error in Practice: A Case Study, ISBA World Meeting 2018
Shravan Vasishth, Daniela Mertzen, Lena A. Jäger, and Andrew Gelman

Type M Error in Practice: A Case Study, StanCon 2018
Shravan Vasishth, Daniela Mertzen, Lena A. Jäger, and Andrew Gelman

Semantic Priming Effects during Coreference: A Bayesian Analysis of Five ERP studies, CUNY 2018
Sol Lago, Lena A. Jäger, Anna Namyst, and Ellen Lau

The Importance of Replication in Psycholinguistics, CUNY 2017
Daniela Mertzen, Lena A. Jäger, and Shravan Vasishth

German relative clauses: The missing-VP effect in double and triple embeddings, CUNY 2016
Daniela Mertzen, Lena A. Jäger, and Shravan Vasishth

Interference effects in sentence comprehension: A synthesis, AMLaP 2016
Felix Jäger, Lena A. an Engelmann and Shravan Vasishth
[ pdf ]

Interference effects in russian reflexives, AMLaP 2015
Anna Laurinavichyute, Lena Jäger, Yulia Akinina, Lena Benz, and Olga Dragoy

Teasing apart retrieval and encoding interference in russian reflexives, CUNY 2015
Anna Laurinavichyute, Lena Jäger, Yulia Akinina, Lena Benz, and Olga Dragoy.

Cue confusion and distractor prominence can explain inconsistent interference effects. CUNY 2015
Felix Engelmann, Lena Jäger, and Shravan Vasishth

Inhibitory interference in reflexives. Evidence for cue confusability, AMLaP 2014
Lena Jäger, Engelmann Felix, and Shravan Vasishth

Encoding and retrieval interference in dependency resolution, CUNY 2014
Jens Roeser, Lena Jäger, Lena Benz, and Shravan Vasishth

Reading resultative verb compounds in Chinese sentences: An eye-tracking study, EAPC2 2014
Chien-Jer Charles Lin and Lena Jäger.

The subject-relative advantage in Chinese: Evidence for expectation-based processing, EAPC2 2014
Lena Jäger, Zhong Chen, Chien-Jer Charles Lin, Qiang Li, and Shravan Vasishth

Grammatical gender does not lead to similarity-based interference, ECEM 2013
Lena Jäger, Lena Benz, Brian W. Dillon, and Shravan Vasishth

Eyetracking evidence for the subject relative advantage in Mandarin, CUNY 2013
Lena Jäger, Shravan Vasishth, Zhong Chen, and Chien-Jer Charles Lin

Non-structural search in reflexive resolution: Eye-tracking while reading, CUNY 2013
Lena Benz, Lena Jäger, Philip Hofmeister, and Shravan Vasishth

Structural-frequency affects processing cost: Evidence from Chinese relative clauses, CUNY 2012
Zhong Chen, Lena Jäger, Qiang Li, and Shravan Vasishth

Teasing apart encoding from retrieval interference in reflexives, AMLaP 2013
Lena Jäger, Lena Benz, Brian W. Dillon, and Shravan Vasishth
[ pdf ]

Interference effects in anaphor resolution. Eyetracking evidence from Mandarin, AMLaP 2012
Lena Jäger and Shravan Vasishth

Currently supervised PhD students

Patrick Haller, PhD student in Computational Linguistics

Chiara Tschirner, PhD student in Computational Linguistics

Lena Bolliger, PhD student in Computational Linguistics

Jan Brasser, PhD student in Computational Linguistics

Deborah Jakobi, PhD student in Computational Linguistics

Cui Ding, PhD student in Computational Linguistics

Shuwen Deng, PhD student in Machine Learning, Department of Computer Science, University of Potsdam

David R. Reich, PhD student in Machine Learning, Department of Computer Science, University of Potsdam

Daniel Krakowczyk, PhD student in Machine Learning (co-supervision), Department of Computer Science, University of Potsdam

Leah Bradshaw, PhD student in Phonetics (co-supervision)

Alessandro De Luca, PhD student in Phonetics (co-supervision)

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