@inproceedings{L16-1077,
 abstract = {The paper presents a corpus of text data and its corresponding gaze fixations obtained from autistic and non-autistic readers. The data was elicited through reading comprehension testing combined with eye-tracking recording. The corpus consists of 1034 content words tagged with their POS, syntactic role and three gaze-based measures corresponding to the autistic and control participants. The reading skills of the participants were measured through multiple-choice questions and, based on the answers given, they were divided into groups of skillful and less-skillful readers. This division of the groups informs researchers on whether particular fixations were elicited from skillful or less-skillful readers and allows a fair between-group comparison for two levels of reading ability. In addition to describing the process of data collection and corpus development, we present a study on the effect that word length has on reading in autism. The corpus is intended as a resource for investigating the particular linguistic constructions which pose reading difficulties for people with autism and hopefully, as a way to inform future text simplification research intended for this population.
},
 address = {Portorož, Slovenia},
 author = {Victoria Yaneva and Irina Temnikova and Ruslan Mitkov},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016)},
 month = {May},
 pages = {480--487},
 publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
 title = {A Corpus of Text Data and Gaze Fixations from Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults},
 url = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/L16-1077},
 year = {2016}
}