News

MultiplEYE Final Conference

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:00:00 GMT

On 20–21 August, members of the DiLi group attended the MultiplEYE Final Conference in Skopje.

pymovements Workshop

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT

From July 20–22, the pymovements team met for a three-day workshop at the University of Zurich.

MultiplEYE Text Corpus published at LREC 2026

Thu, 28 May 2026 22:00:00 GMT

The MultiplEYE Text Corpus has been published at LREC 2026!

ETIZ Meetup

Thu, 28 May 2026 15:16:04 GMT

Yesterday, we hosted the ETIZ Meetup! After a lab tour and four interesting talks about a diverse range of topics within eye-tracking research, we enjoyed an apero to network and share ideas and insights.

Publications at the 2026 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA)

Wed, 27 May 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Two publications have been accepted & presented by members of our Digital Linguistics group at ETRA 2026 in Marrakech.

A Survey of Eye-Tracking-While-Reading Datasets

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:00:00 GMT

A comprehensive, filterable overview of eye-tracking-while-reading datasets.

The EyeBench Framework

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:00:00 GMT

A mega-project providing much needed infrastructure for easy loading & standardized preprocessing of eye-tracking datasets.

New Project: OpenEye

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:34:40 GMT

We're happy to annouce that we are launching a new project funded by swissuniversities.

Publications at the 2025 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA)

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:25:23 GMT

A total of nine publications have been accepted & presented by members of our Digital Linguistics group at ETRA 2025 in Tokyo.

Call for Abstracts Now Open – Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:43:17 GMT

We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission for the first Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 is now open!

ACL Tutorial

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:26:27 GMT

At this year's ACL we will organize a tutorial on eye-tracking and NLP. Be there to join us!

MultiplEYE Newsletter - Issue 4 now available

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:27:17 GMT

New Preprint: EMTeC, the Eye Movements on Machine-Generated Texts Corpus

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:43:39 GMT

We are delighted to share that we have just released a new paper which presents our most recent dataset!

Award won by Deborah Jakobi and Daniel Krakowczyk at ETRA 2024

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 12:19:48 GMT

We are proud to announce that Deborah Jakobi, Daniel Krakowczyk, and Lena Jäger won this year's award for best student late breaking work at ETRA 2024 for their work: Reporting Eye-Tracking Data Quality: Towards a New Standard!

New Paper on Eye-Tracking Data Quality at ETRA 2024

Sun, 02 Jun 2024 22:00:00 GMT

At this year's ETRA we are presenting a paper accepted to Late Breaking Work. We present our approach to share eye-tracking data more transparently and easier to reuse and how data quality can be meaningfully assesed and reported.

New paper accepted to the Journal of Memory and Language

Mon, 27 May 2024 11:40:58 GMT

A new paper has been accepted to the Journal of Memory and Language. It presents a new and innovative method to collect reading times which is called MoTR: Mouse Tracking for Reading.

MultiplEYE Meeting in Kaunas

Thu, 23 May 2024 08:52:36 GMT

From May 16 - 17 the MultiplEYE WG1 and WG3 met in Kaunas, Lithuania, to discuss the state of the experiment and provide support such that everyone can get started on the data collection.

Data Protection Law Congress

Tue, 21 May 2024 08:25:03 GMT

Lena Jäger will be speaking at the Data Protection Law Congress on May 22 at the University of Zurich. At the congress, different speakers will be talking about the revised data protection law that has been in effect since a while now. New technologies like ChatGPT require constant discussion of how to create laws that take the ever-changing AI applications into account.

MutliplEYE Workshop at ETRA 2024 in Glasgow

Wed, 15 May 2024 22:00:00 GMT

At this year's ETRA, members of our lab are co-organizing a workshop called "MultiplEYE: Eye-tracking in Reading". One workshop is to disseminate the work that has been put into this large-scale data collection so far and share it with other researchers in the field as well as foster even more collaboration.

The 2nd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 23:00:00 GMT

We are delighted to announce that we will host the second workshop on "Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension" in Zurich on June 20–22, 2024! The workshop is sponsored by the MultiplEYE COST action.

New paper: Improving cognitive-state analysis from eye gaze with synthetic eye-movement data

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 07:18:10 GMT

In our new paper, we explore how synthetic eye gaze data can be used to improve cognitive-state analysis.

New paper: Illustrating the need of more diverse populations for cognitively-inspired NLP

Sun, 03 Mar 2024 23:00:00 GMT

Our new paper accepted to LREC 2024 shows how diverse populations influence cognitively-inspired NLP.

New preprint: The Potsdam Textbook Corpus

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:00:00 GMT

We recently published a new preprint that presents the Potsdam Textbook Corpus (PoTeC). PoTec is a German eye-tracking-while-reading corpus.

EMNLP 2023

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 09:46:24 GMT

At the 2023 version of EMNLP, two of our researchers presented their work.

Lorentz Workshop on Cognitive Modeling of Complex Behavior

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 08:23:38 GMT

Lorentz Workshop on Computational Modeling of Complex Behavior, organised by Bruno Nicenboim (Tilburg University), Riccardo Fusaroli (Aarhus University), and Marieke van Vugt (University of Groningen) in Leiden, NL

Research spotlight: Synthetic reading data

Wed, 13 Dec 2023 09:07:34 GMT

One of our research goals is to explore how to use synthetic reading data to make large language models more human-like. We have recently published two papers that show the potential of such endeavours.

Semester Award for Cui Ding

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 07:20:07 GMT

We are pleased to announce that Cui Ding has won this year's semester award for her outstanding Master's thesis!

MultiplEYE: A multi-lab effort to establish new standards for the collection and pre-processing of multi-lingual eyetracking-while-reading data

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 11:57:34 GMT

At this year's Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning (X-PPL) workshop we had the chance to present our current research with a talk and a poster.

Paper on generating synthetic scanpaths has been accepted to EMNLP 2023

Sat, 28 Oct 2023 13:21:31 GMT

We are happy to share that our new paper on generating synthetic scanpaths using a diffusion model has been accepted to EMNLP 2023.

New paper on detecting drowsiness and impending microsleep accepted to Gaze Meets ML (NeurIPS)

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:25:10 GMT

We are happy to share that our new paper on detecting drowsiness and impending microsleep has been accepted to Gaze Meets ML (NeurIPS).

New paper on using synthetic scanpaths for NLU downstream tasks accepted to EMLNP 2023

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 12:59:23 GMT

Our new paper on using synthetic scanpaths for NLU downstream tasks has been accepted to EMNLP 2023.

MultiplEYE Meeting in Zagreb

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 13:09:54 GMT

From September 28 - September 29 members from the MultiplEYE COST action met in Zagreb, Croatia, to discuss and brainstrom on the details of the multilingual eye-tracking data collection.

New preprint on the the measurement reliability of individual differences in sentence processing

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 12:16:25 GMT

A new preprint by Patrick Haller et al. is now available on PsyArXiv. It is titled: "Measurement reliability of individual differences in sentence processing: A cross-methodological reading corpus and Bayesian analysis".

"Lesen im Blick"

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 14:48:29 GMT

For our large, longitudinal study "Lesen im Blick", the first children were tested.

ETRA 2023

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:15:42 GMT

Four papers have been accepted at ETRA 2023

New Topics for BA and MA theses

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 22:00:00 GMT

Would you like to write a master's thesis at the Digital Linguistics lab? Check out our open topics!