I am a second-year PhD student in the Digital Linguistics group, supervised by Prof. Dr. Lena A. Jäger and Prof. Dr. Rico Sennrich. I obtained my Master's degree at UZH in Linguistics with a focus on Digital Linguistics, where I wrote my MA Thesis on predicting human attention from eye movements with neural sequence models.

I am currently working on the investigation and the enhancement of the cognitive plausibility of language models.

On the alignment of LM language generation and human language comprehension,  EMNLP/BlackboxNLP 2024
Lena S. Bolliger, Patrick Haller, Lena A. Jäger
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EMTeC: A Corpus of Eye Movements on Machine-Generated Texts,  under review
Lena S. Bolliger, Patrick Haller, Isabelle C. R. Cretton, David R. Reich, Tannon Kew,  Lena A. Jäger
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On language models’ cognitive biases in reading time prediction, ICML workshop on Large Language Models and Cognition 2024
Patrick Haller, Lena S. Bolliger, and Lena A. Jäger
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Language models emulate certain cognitive profiles: An investigation of how predictability measures interact with individual differences, ACL 2024
Patrick Haller, Lena S. Bolliger, and Lena A. Jäger
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An eye opener regarding task-based text gradient saliency, ACL/CMCL 2024
Guojun Wu, Lena S. Bolliger, David R. Reich, and Lena A. Jäger
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ScanDL: A Diffusion Model for Generating Synthetic Scanpaths on Texts,  EMNLP 2023
Lena S. Bolliger, David R. Reich, Patrick Haller, Deborah N. Jakobi, Paul Prasse, Lena A. Jäger
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Introducing ScanDL: A diffusion-based generative model of eye movements in reading,  MathPsych/ICCM 2024 (Society for Mathematical Psychology and International Conference on Cognitive Modeling)
Lena S. Bolliger, David R. Reich, Patrick Haller, Deborah N. Jakobi, Paul Prasse, Lena A. Jäger