Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for human and machine language processing research

About MultiplEYE

The MultiplEYE COST Action aims to foster an interdisciplinary network of research groups working on collecting eye tracking data from reading in many languages. The goal is to support the development of a large multilingual eye tracking corpus and enable researchers to collect data by sharing infrastructure and their knowledge between various fields, including linguistics, psychology, and computer science. This data collection can then be used to study human language processing from a psycholinguistic perspective as well as to improve and evaluate computational language processing from a machine learning perspective.

The MultiplEYE COST Action has three core goals:

1. To provide a platform for discussing the desiderata and reaching a common ground between psycholinguists and computational linguists for a multilingual eye-tracking and self-paced reading data collection. This includes developing and reaching a consensus concerning experiment design, stimulus selection, stimulus layout, experimental procedure, and data preprocessing.

2. To enable discussions on the psycholinguistic research questions that can be addressed with multilingual eye movement data and providing a broad network to initiate collaborations focusing on cross-linguistic and multilingual projects.

3. To advance the natural language processing and machine learning applications that leverage eye-tracking data and improve their cross-linguistic generalization abilities by bringing researchers from psycholinguistics and computational linguistics closer together.


Recent Updates

  • NLP Hackathon Organized by WG4

    On April 14th and 15th, MULTIPLEYE hosted an engaging two-day hackathon at New York University in Tirana, Albania which brought together participants from seven different countries. This event provided a unique platform for collaboration and innovation, focusing on improving eye-tracking technology and its applications in Natural Language Processing (NLP). The hackathon aimed to encourage creativity…

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  • Funded Projects 2025

    The project “MultiplEYE DK – Contributing eye-tracking data from Danish, Italian, and West Greenlandic (Kalaallisut)” is funded by the Carlsberg Foundation for the grant period March 2025 – March 2027. The project team consists of Patrizia Paggio, Alberto Parola and Johanne Sofie Krog Nedergård, from the University of Copenhagen, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics…

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  • Open Call for MultiplEYE WG 3 meeting

    MultiplEYE Cost Action members are invited to attend the Predictors of Reading Workshop hosted by the Language Acquisition and Language Processing Lab, NTNU on April 10-11, 2025. We can accommodate up to 5 attendees with specific interest in the psychology of reading and reading development, and especially WG3 members.

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