⚙️ New preprint alert! ⚙️ "Mouse tracking for reading (MoTR): A new incremental processing measurement tool" with Cui Ding , Mrinmaya Sachan and Lena Jäger ! 🐁⚙️🐭 psyarxiv.com/4ryvs

Our group is hiring a researcher in language technology. The position is full-time and permanent! The position is open until filled, but apply in the next few weeks for best chances! forms.office.com/pages/response…

The #MultiplEYE Working Group 1 meeting took place in Zagreb, Croatia on September 28-29, 2023, providing a good opportunity to engage in discussions on the progress made in data collection thus far. Details here: multipleye.eu/wg1-zagreb-dat…

Happy to announce that we have two papers accepted at #EMNLP2023 main conference: 1) a diffusion model for generating synthetic eye movements in reading 2) using synthetic human-like eye movements to enhance NLU. Congratulations to Lena S. Bolliger, David R. Reich, Patrick Haller, et al.!

We have an absolutely stellar meetup coming up this October 19th @ 6:00 PM! Jonas Pfeiffer from Google DeepMind will be presenting followed by Eiso Kant co-founder and CTO of poolside. Last meetup we ran out of spots! RSVP: zurich-nlp.ch/event/zurich-n…

Check out the preprint of our #EMNLP2023 paper where we augment a language model with simulated eye movements to cognitively enhance the model's performance on NLU downstream tasks arxiv.org/abs/2310.14676

🤖 Ever wondered what RNN-based language models are truly capable of? Check out our #EMNLP2023 paper which places formal bounds on their capabilities! With Anej Svete, Leo Du, and Ryan (1/7) arxiv.org/abs/2310.12942

For all language & maths lovers: check out this very attractive job opening on the mathematical foundations of language, with a focus on stochastic processes Universität Zürich's Department of Comparative Language Science, and become part of evolvinglanguage.ch! For details, see ivs.uzh.ch/en/jobs/Lectur…

Congratulations to Cui Ding who was awarded with the Semester Prize by the president of Universität Zürich for her Master's thesis Zurich Computational Linguistics Group co-supervises by Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox on Mouse Tracking for Reading, a low-cost alternative to eye-tracking. Find out more here: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Check out this attractive job opening for a faculty position in Computational Cognitive Science in Edinburgh: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Hiring a PhD student to work on representations of knowledge in multilingual language models. Position starts September 2024, and will be part of NCCR Evolving Language. Apply by January 4! jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen…

PhD position at Idiap Research Institute and the University of Zurich on computational modeling of lexical innovation careers.werecruit.io/en/idiap/offre…

📊 Dive into the world of proportion data with our "Meet the Families: Beta Distribution" workshop at #LiRI! 🎓 Learn about beta regression models, interpret model outputs, and get hands-on experience. 🗓️ March 20, 14:15-16:00 on Zoom. Register&more: liri.uzh.ch/en/events/work…

Job opening at the University of Geneva for an engineer with excellent programming and gamification skills to develop and maintain a database of  experimental psychology tasks - in the domains of cognition, language, social behavior and emotion. bit.ly/3QCisyS

Find out more about Mouse Tracking for Reading (MoTR), a new experimental method for investigating incremental language processing, developed by Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox and Cui Ding that has just been published in JourMemLang sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to Deborah Jakobi and Daniel Krakowczyk for receiving the Best Student Late Breaking Work award ETRA for their paper "Reporting Eye-Tracking Data Quality: Towards a New Standard". Check out their paper dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Help us crowd sourcing eyetracking glasses to support labs across Europe and beyond to contribute to a multilingual eyetracking-while-reading data collection (see multipleye.eu)! Donate here wemakeit.com/projects/the-t…

Do you want to find out what your dominant eye is? Check out this video youtube.com/watch?v=dBCU6W… prepared by the MulitplEYE COST Action (multipleye.eu).