PIHKers at CMCL 2021 Shared Task: Cosine Similarity and Surprisal to Predict Human Reading Patterns.

Lavinia Salicchi, Alessandro Lenci


Abstract
Eye-tracking psycholinguistic studies have revealed that context-word semantic coherence and predictability influence language processing. In this paper we show our approach to predict eye-tracking features from the ZuCo dataset for the shared task of the Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL2021) workshop. Using both cosine similarity and surprisal within a regression model, we significantly improved the baseline Mean Absolute Error computed among five eye-tracking features.
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2021.cmcl-1.12
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
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June
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2021
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Online
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Emmanuele Chersoni, Nora Hollenstein, Cassandra Jacobs, Yohei Oseki, Laurent Prévot, Enrico Santus
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CMCL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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102–107
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.cmcl-1.12
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.cmcl-1.12
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Lavinia Salicchi and Alessandro Lenci. 2021. PIHKers at CMCL 2021 Shared Task: Cosine Similarity and Surprisal to Predict Human Reading Patterns.. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, pages 102–107, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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PIHKers at CMCL 2021 Shared Task: Cosine Similarity and Surprisal to Predict Human Reading Patterns. (Salicchi & Lenci, CMCL 2021)
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