Publications

Here, you'll find a list of our group's publications including talks and poster references. Also, check out our poster gallery!

2024

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]

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]

The Pupil Becomes the Master: Eye-Tracking Feedback for Tuning LLMs, ICML workshop on Large Language Models and Cognition 2024
Samuel Kiegeland, David R. Reich, Ryan Cotterell, Lena A. Jäger, Ethan Wilcox
[http |pdf |bib]

Fine-Tuning Pre-Trained Language Models with Gaze Supervision, ACL 2024
Shuwen Deng, Paul Prasse, David R. Reich, Tobias Scheffer, 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
[http |pdf | bib]

An eye opener regarding task-based text gradient saliency, ACL/CMCL 2024
Guojun Wu, Lena S. Bolliger, David R. Reich, and Lena A. Jäger
[ http |bib]

Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR): A New Naturalistic Incremental Processing Measurement Tool, Journal of Memory and Language
Ethan G. Wilcox, Cui Ding, Mrinmaya Sachan, and Lena A. Jäger
[http | code | bib]

Predicting Code Comprehension: A Novel Approach to Align Human Gaze with Code using Deep Neural Networks, FSE 2024
Tarek Alakmeh, David R. Reich, Lena A. Jäger, and Thomas Fritz
[http | 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 |arxiv preprint]

Saliency Models Reveal Reduced Top-Down Attention in Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder: A Naturalistic Eye-Tracking Study, JAACAP Open​​​​​​​
Sabine Dziemian, Gaston Bujia, Paul Prasse, Zofia Barańczuk-Turska, Lena A. Jäger, Juan E. Kamienkowski, and Nicolas Langer
[http | bib]

Data Management Plan (DMP) for COST Action "MultiplEYE" (CA21131), PsychArchives
Marie-Luise Müller, Deborah N. Jakobi, Ramunė Kasperė, Nora Hollenstein, and Lena A. Jäger
[http | bib]

MultiplEYE Data Sharing Policy, PsychArchives
Marie-Luise Müller, Ramunė Kasperė, Deborah N. Jakobi, Leah Bradshaw, Nora Hollenstein, and Lena A. Jäger
[http | bib]

🏆 Best student late breaking work award
Reporting Eye-Tracking Data Quality: Towards a New Standard, ETRA 2024
Deborah N. Jakobi, Daniel G. Krakowczyk, and Lena A. Jäger
[http |arxiv preprint | bib | poster (PNG, 997 KB)]

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

Reading Does Not Equal Reading: Comparing, Simulating and Exploiting Reading Behavior Across Populations, LREC-COLING 2024
David R. Reich, Shuwen Deng, Marina Björnsdóttir, Lena A. Jäger, and Nora Hollenstein
[http |bib]

Improving Cognitive-State Analysis from Eye Gaze with Synthetic Eye-Movement Data, Computers & Graphics
Paul Prasse, David R. Reich, Silvia Makowski, Tobias Scheffer, and Lena A. Jäger
[http | bib]

Detection of Drowsiness and Impending Microsleep from Eye Movements, Gaze Meets ML (NeurIPS Workshop)
Silvia Makowski, Paul Prasse, Lena A. Jäger, and Tobias Scheffer
[ http |Abstract |bib]

2023

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, and Lena A. Jäger
[ http |Video|Poster|bib]

Pre-Trained Language Models Augmented with Synthetic Scanpaths for Natural Language Understanding,  EMNLP 2023
Shuwen Deng, Paul Prasse, David R. Reich, Tobias Scheffer, and Lena A. Jäger
[http | bib]

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

🏆 Best short paper award
Bridging the Gap: Gaze Events as Interpretable Concepts to Explain Deep Neural Sequence Models, ETRA 2023
Daniel Krakowczyk, Paul Prasse, David R. Reich, Sebastian Lapuschkin, Tobias Scheffer, and Lena A. Jäger
[http | bib | code]

pymovements: A Python package for eye movement data processing, ETRA 2023
Daniel G. Krakowczyk, David R. Reich, Jakob Chwastek, Assunta Süss, Paul Prasse, Deborah N. Jakobi, Oleksii Turuta, Paweł Kasprowski, and Lena A. Jäger
[https| PyPI  |bib]

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

SP-EyeGAN: Generating Synthetic Eye Movement Data with Generative Adversarial Networks, ETRA 2023
Paul Prasse, David R. Reich, Silvia Makowski, Shuwen Deng, Daniel Krakowczyk, Tobias Scheffer, and Lena A. Jäger
[http | bib | code]

Module Selection: A new task for Dialog Systems, IWSDS 2023
Jan Nehring, Akhyar Ahmed, and Lena A. Jäger
[pdf | bib]

The ZuCo Benchmark on Cross-Subject Reading Task Classification with EEG and Eye-Tracking Data, Frontiers in Psychology
Nora Hollenstein, Marius Tröndle, Martyna Plomecka, Samuel Kiegeland, Yilmazcan Özyurt, Lena A. Jäger, and Nicolas Langer
[http | bib]

Editorial: Eye-tracking while reading for psycholinguistic and computational models of language comprehension, Frontiers in Psychology
Marijan Palmović, Lena A. Jäger, and Nora Hollenstein
[ http | bib]

2022

Selection of XAI Methods Matters: Evaluation of Feature Attribution Methods for Oculomotoric Biometric Identification, NeurIPS/Gaze Meets ML 2022
Daniel Krakowczyk, David R. Reich, Paul Prasse, Sebastian Lapuschkin, Tobias Scheffer, and Lena A. Jäger
[pdf | http| bib]

Patterns of Text Readability in Human and Predicted Eye Movements, AACL-IJCNLP/CogALex 2022
Nora Hollenstein, Itziar Gonzalez-Dios, Lisa Beinborn, and Lena A. Jäger
[pdf | bib]

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
[http | bib]

Oculomotoric Biometric Identification under the Influence of Alcohol and Fatigue, IJCB 2022
Silvia Makowski, Paul Prasse, Lena A. Jäger, and Tobias Scheffer
[pdf | bib]

Detection of ADHD based on Eye Movements during Natural Viewing, ECML/PKDD 2022
Shuwen Deng, Paul Prasse, David R. Reich, Sabine Dziemian, Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz, Daniel Krakowczyk, Silvia Makowski, Nicolas Langer, Tobias Scheffer, and Lena A. Jäger
[pdf |http | video trailer | code | bib]

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 | video trailer | code | bib]

Fairness in Oculomotoric Biometric Identification, ETRA 2022
Paul Prasse, David R. Reich, Silvia Makowski, Lena A. Jäger, and Tobias Scheffer
[http | video trailer | recorded talk | bib]

Fundamental Frequency Variability over Time in Telephone Interactions, Interspeech 2022
Leah Bradshaw, Eleanor Chodroff, Lena Jäger, and Volker Dellwo
[http | pdf |bib ]

The ZuCo Benchmark on Cross-Subject Reading Task Classification with EEG and Eye-Tracking Data, bioRxiv
Nora Hollenstein, Marius Tröndle, Martyna Plomecka, Samuel Kiegeland, Yilmazcan Özyurt, Lena A. Jäger, and Nicolas Langer
[ pdf | bib]

2021

Reading Task Classification Using EEG and Eye-Tracking Data, arXiv
Nora Hollenstein, Marius Tröndle, Martyna Plomecka, Samuel Kiegeland, Yilmazcan Özyurt, Lena A. Jäger, and Nicolas Langer
[ pdf | bib]

Position Paper: A Legal Framework for Artificial Intelligence, DSI
 Florent Thouvenin, Markus Christen, Abraham Bernstein, Nadja Braun Binder, Thomas Burri, Karsten Donnay, Lena A. Jäger, Mariela Jaffé, Michael Krauthammer, Melinda Lohmann, Anna Mätzener, Sophie Mützel, Liliane Obrecht, Nicole Ritter, Matthias Spielkamp, and Stephanie Volz
[ en, de, fr | bib]

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

DeepEyedentificationLive: Oculomotoric Biometric Identification and Presentation-Attack Detection using Deep Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science
Silvia Makowski, Paul Prasse, David R. Reich, Daniel Krakowczyk, Lena A. Jäger and Tobias Scheffer
[ http | bib]

Multilingual Language Models Predict Human Reading Behavior, NAACL-HLT 2021
Nora Hollenstein, Federico Pirovano, Ce Zhang, Lena Jäger and Lisa Beinborn
[ http | bib ]

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
[ http | bib]

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
[ http | bib]

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
[ http | bib]

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
[ pdf | http | bib]

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
[ pdf | http | ArXiv-preprint | bib]

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
[ http | bib]

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]

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

Deciphering Literacy among Child Learners: Exploring the Link between Reading Comprehension and Visual Search Behaviour through Eye Movements, 2nd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension 2024
Jan Brasser, Chiara Tschirner, Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz, Lena A. Jäger

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

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
[ Poster (JPG, 2 MB)]

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
Lena A. Jäger, Felix 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