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title = "Using Gaze to Predict Text Readability",
author = "Gonz{\'a}lez-Gardu{\~n}o, Ana Valeria and
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editor = "Tetreault, Joel and
Burstein, Jill and
Leacock, Claudia and
Yannakoudakis, Helen",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of {NLP} for Building Educational Applications",
month = sep,
year = "2017",
address = "Copenhagen, Denmark",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W17-5050",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-5050",
pages = "438--443",
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%T Using Gaze to Predict Text Readability
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%A Søgaard, Anders
%Y Tetreault, Joel
%Y Burstein, Jill
%Y Leacock, Claudia
%Y Yannakoudakis, Helen
%S Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications
%D 2017
%8 September
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%C Copenhagen, Denmark
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%X We show that text readability prediction improves significantly from hard parameter sharing with models predicting first pass duration, total fixation duration and regression duration. Specifically, we induce multi-task Multilayer Perceptrons and Logistic Regression models over sentence representations that capture various aggregate statistics, from two different text readability corpora for English, as well as the Dundee eye-tracking corpus. Our approach leads to significant improvements over Single task learning and over previous systems. In addition, our improvements are consistent across train sample sizes, making our approach especially applicable to small datasets.
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Markdown (Informal)
[Using Gaze to Predict Text Readability](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5050) (González-Garduño & Søgaard, BEA 2017)
ACL
- Ana Valeria González-Garduño and Anders Søgaard. 2017. Using Gaze to Predict Text Readability. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, pages 438–443, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.