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title = "Reading Dynamics and Comprehension in Cognitive Aging: A Multimodal Language Resource",
author = "Marzi, Claudia and
Boni, Noemi and
Todesco, Alice and
Nadalini, Andrea and
Albertin, Giorgia and
Dolciotti, Cristina and
Bongioanni, Paolo and
Ferro, Marcello and
Tamburini, Fabio and
Gagliardi, Gloria and
Pirrelli, Vito",
editor = "Piperidis, Stelios and
Bel, N{\'u}ria and
van den Heuvel, Henk and
Ide, Nancy and
Krek, Simon and
Toral, Antonio",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.204/",
doi = "10.63317/3wjy3a8cwnw8",
pages = "2608--2618",
abstract = "We introduce a novel italian language resource for the study of reading and comprehension in aging populations, combining behavioural and linguistic data from healthy controls (HC), individuals with subjective cognitive decline (SCI), participants with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and patients with mild dementia (CDR1). Reading performance was recorded through a finger-tracking based application during both silent and oral reading, enabling fine-grained temporal analyses at the text, token and character level. Comprehension was assessed via multiple question types (wh-, inferential, referential, and lexical). Descriptive and non-linear regression analyses informed a feature selection process, yielding temporal and comprehension-based measures that capture individual reading dynamics. These features were explored through unsupervised clustering and supervised classification to investigate their discriminative and predictive potential across cognitive profiles. The resource supports research on reading and cognitive decline, offers a reproducible protocol for large-scale data collection, and provides a foundation for developing early cognitive screening and monitoring tools or aging populations."
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%T Reading Dynamics and Comprehension in Cognitive Aging: A Multimodal Language Resource
%A Marzi, Claudia
%A Boni, Noemi
%A Todesco, Alice
%A Nadalini, Andrea
%A Albertin, Giorgia
%A Dolciotti, Cristina
%A Bongioanni, Paolo
%A Ferro, Marcello
%A Tamburini, Fabio
%A Gagliardi, Gloria
%A Pirrelli, Vito
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Bel, Núria
%Y van den Heuvel, Henk
%Y Ide, Nancy
%Y Krek, Simon
%Y Toral, Antonio
%S Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resource Association
%C Palma de Mallorca, Spain
%F marzi-etal-2026-reading
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.204/
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Markdown (Informal)
[Reading Dynamics and Comprehension in Cognitive Aging: A Multimodal Language Resource](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.204/) (Marzi et al., LREC 2026)
ACL
- Claudia Marzi, Noemi Boni, Alice Todesco, Andrea Nadalini, Giorgia Albertin, Cristina Dolciotti, Paolo Bongioanni, Marcello Ferro, Fabio Tamburini, Gloria Gagliardi, and Vito Pirrelli. 2026. Reading Dynamics and Comprehension in Cognitive Aging: A Multimodal Language Resource. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 2608–2618, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.