I am a PhD student at the Digital Linguistics Lab, supervised by Prof. Dr. Lena A. Jäger and Prof. Dr. Rico Sennrich. I obtained my Master's degree in Neural Systems and Computation from the ETH and University of Zurich, writing my Thesis at the Developmental Neuroimaging group (Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry). Before, I did a Bachelor's in Comparative Linguistics (Indo-European Linguistics and General Linguistics) and Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich.

Currently, I am working on integrating models of eye-movements and language, language model interpretability, and the assessment of test-retest reliability in psycholinguistics.

On the alignment of LM language generation and human language comprehension,  EMNLP/BlackboxNLP 2024
Lena S. Bolliger, Patrick Haller, Lena A. Jäger
[ http |bib]

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
[ arXiv preprint  |data |bib]

Yes, no, maybe? Revisiting language models' response stability under paraphrasing for the assessment of political leaning, COLM 2024
Patrick Haller, Jannis Vamvas, and Lena A. Jäger
[http |pdf |bib]

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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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
[http |pdf | bib]

Towards a mechanistic understanding of reading difficulties: Deviant audiovisual learning dynamics and network connectivity in children with poor reading skills, under review
Nada Frei, David Willinger, Patrick Haller, Gorka Fraga-González, Gustavo Pamplona, Amelie Haugg, Christina Lutz, Seline Coraj, Eva Hefti, and Silvia Brem 

PoTeC: A German Naturalistic Eye-tracking-while-reading Corpus, Behavior Research Methods
Deborah N. Jakobi, Thomas Kern, David R. Reich, Patrick Haller & Lena A. Jäger
[arxiv preprint |data | bib]

Digital comprehensibility assessment of simplified texts among persons with intellectual disabilities, CHI 2024
Andreas Säuberli, Franz Holzknecht, Patrick Haller, Silvana Deilen, Laura Schiffl, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, and Sarah Ebling
[http | bib]

Neural representations of association strength and prediction error during novel symbol-speech sounds learning, under review
Gorka Fraga-González, Patrick Haller, David Willinger, Vanessa Gehrig, Nada Frei, Silvia Brem
[bioRxiv-preprint]

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
[ http |Video |Poster |bib]

Measurement reliability of individual differences in sentence processing: A cross-methodological reading corpus and Bayesian analysis, under review
Patrick Haller, Iva Koncic, David R. Reich and Lena A. Jäger
[http |bib]

Eyettention: An Attention-based Dual-Sequence Model for Predicting Human Scanpaths during Reading, ETRA 2023
Shuwen Deng, David R. Reich, Paul Prasse, Patrick Haller, Tobias Scheffer and Lena A. Jäger
[http |bib | code]

Eye-tracking based classification of Mandarin Chinese readers with and without Dyslexia, EMNLP/TSAR 2022
Patrick Haller, Andreas Säuberli, Sarah Elisabeth Kiener, Jinger Pan, Ming Yan, and Lena A. Jäger
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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
[pdf]

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

Inferring Native and Non-Native Human Reading Comprehension and Subjective Text Difficulty from Scanpaths in Reading, ETRA 2022
David R. Reich, Paul Prasse, Chiara Tschirner, Patrick Haller, Frank Goldhammer, and Lena A. Jäger
[http | bib]

Revisiting the Uniform Information Density Hypothesis, EMNLP 2021
Clara Meister, Tiago Pimentel, Patrick Haller, Lena Jäger, Ryan Cotterell and Roger Levy
[ http | bib]

Potsdam Textbook Corpus (PoTeC), OSF
Lena Jäger, Thomas Kern and Patrick Haller
[http]