I am a first-year PhD student in Computational Linguistics, supervised by Prof. Dr. Lena A. Jäger and co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Ebling I have a Master's degree in Digital Linguistics from UZH.
I did my master's thesis project with Prof. Dr. Lena A. Jäger and Dr. Ethan Wilcox on Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR): A New Incremental Processing Paradigm (which was awared by the University of Zurich with the Semesterpreis). In this project, we present a method that aims to be cheap and easy but at the same time a better proxy for the gold-standard eye-tracking. With MoTR, participants see very blurry text and hover their mouse over text to bring that text into clarity. Thus, participants can read relatively naturally, including being able to skip words or regress, and researchers get reading location for each time point similar to that from eye-tracking.
I am currently working on MeRID and MultiplEYE projects.
Publications
2026
The MultiplEYE Text Corpus: Towards a Diverse and Ever-Expanding Multilingual Text Corpus, LREC 2026
Ramunė Kasperė, Anna Bondar, Sergiu Nisioi, Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz, Hanne B. Søndergaard Knudsen, Ana Matić, Eva Pavlinušić Vilus, Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Chiara Tschirner, Not Battesta Soliva, Deborah N. Jakobi, Cui Ding, Dima Abu Romi, Cengiz Acarturk, Matilda Agdler, Anton Marius Alexandru, Mohd Faizan Ansari, Annalisa Arcidiacono, Elizabete Ausma Velta Barisa, Ana Bautista, Lisa Beinborn, Yevgeni Berzak, Nedeljka Bjelanović, Anna Isabelle Bothmann, Jan Brasser, Caterina Cacioli, Anila Çepani, Ilze Ceple, Adelina Cerpja, Dalí Chirino, Jan Chromý, Alessandro Corona Mendozza, Iria de-Dios-Flores, Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz, Ana Došen, Kristian Elersič, Inmaculada Fajardo, Zigmunds Freibergs, Angelina Ganebnaya, Shan Gao, Jéssica Gomes, Annjo Klungervik Greenall, Alba Haveriku, Miao He, Anamaria Hodivoianu, Yu-Yin Hsu, Amanda Isaksen, Andreia Janeiro, Kristine Jensen de López, Aleksandar Jevremovic, Vojislav Jovanovic, Hanna Kędzierska, Nik Kharlamov, Sara Kosutar, Nelda Kote, Vanja Kovic, Izabela Krejtz, Thyra Krosness, Oleksandra Kuvshynova, Eilam Lavy, Ella Lion, Marta Łockiewicz, Kaidi Lõo, Paula Luegi, Mircea Mihai Marin, Clara Martin, Svitlana Matvieieva, Diane C. Mézière, Xavier Mínguez-López, Valeriia Modina, Jurgita Motiejūnienė, Marie-Luise Müller, Tolgonai Nasipbek kyzy, Jamal Abdul Nasir, Johanne S. K. Nedergård, Ayşegül Özkan, Patrizia Paggio, Marijan Palmović, Maria Christina Panagiotopoulou, Alberto Parola, Helena Pérez, Klaudia Petersen, Anja Podlesek, Eva Pospíšilová, Marta Praulina, Mikuláš Preininger, Loredana Pungă, Diego Rossini, Špela Rot, Habib Sani Yahaya, Irina A. Sekerina, Anne Gabija Skadina, Jordi Solé-Casals, Lonneke van der Plas, Saara M. Varjopuro, Spyridoula Varlokosta, João Veríssimo, Oskari Juhapekka Virtanen, Nemanja Vračar, Mila Vulchanova, Ahmad Mustapha Wali, Peizheng Wu, Nilgün Yücel, Stefan Frank, Nora Hollenstein, Lena Jäger
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Replicate me if you can: Assessing measurement reliability of individual differences in reading across measurement occasions and methods, Cognitive Science
Patrick Haller, Cui Ding, Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz, David R. Reich, Iva Koncic, Silvia Makowski and Lena A. Jäger
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2025
Modeling Bottom-up Information Quality during Language Processing, EMNLP 2025
Cui Ding, Yanning Yin, Lena A. Jäger, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
Using MoTR to Probe Gender Agreement in Russian, OpenMind 2025
Metehan Oğuz, Cui Ding, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Zuzanna Fuchs
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🏆 SAC Highlights Paper
Using Information Theory to Characterize Prosodic Typology: The Case of Tone, Pitch-Accent and Stress-Accent, ACL 2025
Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Cui Ding, Giovanni Acampa, Tiago Pimentel, Alex Warstadt, Tamar I. Regev
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Using Information Theory to Characterize Prosodic Typology: The Case of Tone, Pitch-Accent and Stress-Accent, preprint
Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Cui Ding, Giovanni Acampa, Tiago Pimentel, Alex Warstadt, Tamar I. Regev
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Using MoTR to Probe Gender Agreement in Russian, preprint
Metehan Oğuz, Cui Ding, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox Zuzanna Fuchs
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MultiplEYE: Creating a multilingual eye-tracking-while-reading corpus, ETRA 2025
Deborah N. Jakobi, Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz, Nora Hollenstein, Cui Ding, Ramune Kaspere, Ana Matić Škorić, Eva Pavlinušić Vilus, Stefan L. Frank, Marie-Luise Müller, Kristine M. Jenssen de López, Nik Kharlamov, Hanne Bruun Søndergaard Knudsen, Yevgeni Berzak, Ella Lion, Irina A. Sekerina, Cengiz Acarturk, Mohd Faizan Ansari, Katarzyna Harężlak, Paweł Kasprowski, Ana Bautista, Lisa Beinborn, Anna Bondar, Antonia Boznou, Leah Bradshaw, Miao He, Jana Hofmann, Thyra Krosness, Not Battesta Soliva, Anila Çepani, Kristina Cergol, Ana Došen, Marijan Palmović, Adelina Çerpja, Dalí Chirino, Jan Chromý, Vera Demberg, Iza Škrjanec, Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz, Inmaculada Fajardo, Mariola Giménez-Salvador, Xavier Minguez, Maroš Filip, Zigmunds Freibergs, Jéssica Gomes, Andreia Janeiro, Paula Luegi, João Veríssimo, Sasho Gramatikov, Jana Hasenäcker, Alba Haveriku, Nelda Kote, Muhammad M. Kamal, Hanna Kędzierska, Dorota Klimek-Jankowska, Sara Košutar, Daniel Krakowczyk, Izabela Krejtz, Marta Łockiewicz, Kaidi Lõo, Jurgita Motiejuniene, Jamal A. Nasir, Johanne Sofie Krog Nedergård, Ayşegül Özkan, Mikuláš Preininger, Loredana Punga, David R. Reich, Chiara Tschirner, Špela Rot, Andreas Säuberli, Jordi Solé-Casals, Ekaterina Strati, Igor Svoboda, Evis Trandafili, Spyridoula Varlokosta, Mila Vulchanova, Lena A. Jäger
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Proxy-Based Pre-Training for Eye-Tracking Applications, ETRA 2025
David R. Reich, Cui Ding, Lena S. Bolliger, Patrick Haller, Paul Prasse, Lena A. Jäger
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2024
Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR): A New Naturalistic Incremental Processing Measurement Tool, Journal of Memory and Language
Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Cui Ding, Mrinmaya Sachan, Lena Ann Jäger
Teaching
| Semester | Course |
|---|---|
| HS 2023 | TA in Quantitative Methods |
| FS 2023 | TA in Eye tracking: Experiment design and machine learning methods |
| FS 2023 | TA in Programming Techniques in Computational Linguistics 2 |
| HS 2022 | TA in Language Data Processing |