Team ÚFAL at CMCL 2022 Shared Task: Figuring out the correct recipe for predicting Eye-Tracking features using Pretrained Language Models

Sunit Bhattacharya, Rishu Kumar, Ondrej Bojar


Abstract
Eye-Tracking data is a very useful source of information to study cognition and especially language comprehension in humans. In this paper, we describe our systems for the CMCL 2022 shared task on predicting eye-tracking information. We describe our experiments withpretrained models like BERT and XLM and the different ways in which we used those representations to predict four eye-tracking features. Along with analysing the effect of using two different kinds of pretrained multilingual language models and different ways of pooling the token-level representations, we also explore how contextual information affects the performance of the systems. Finally, we also explore if factors like augmenting linguistic information affect the predictions. Our submissions achieved an average MAE of 5.72 and ranked 5th in the shared task. The average MAE showed further reduction to 5.25 in post task evaluation.
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2022.cmcl-1.15
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
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May
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2022
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Dublin, Ireland
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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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130–135
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10.18653/v1/2022.cmcl-1.15
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Sunit Bhattacharya, Rishu Kumar, and Ondrej Bojar. 2022. Team ÚFAL at CMCL 2022 Shared Task: Figuring out the correct recipe for predicting Eye-Tracking features using Pretrained Language Models. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, pages 130–135, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Team ÚFAL at CMCL 2022 Shared Task: Figuring out the correct recipe for predicting Eye-Tracking features using Pretrained Language Models (Bhattacharya et al., CMCL 2022)
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