Anna Bondar is a first year PhD student in the Department of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich. Her PhD project lies at the intersection of natural language processing and cognitive science. It explores how signals of human attention—captured via eye-tracking during reading—can serve as implicit supervisory feedback to train and evaluate large language models. During her research stay at the University of Valencia (22/02/2025-22/04/2025), she mainly collected the eye-tracking data for the Catalan language.
Recently, I had the opportunity to carry out a research stay at the University of Valencia, hosted by Professor Inmaculada Fajardo Bravo. The main objective of my Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) was to collect eye-tracking data for the Catalan language and to lay the groundwork for future data collection involving psycholinguistic tests. I am convinced that Catalan, as a low-resource and minority language, holds value within the MultiplEYE project, and I am happy that I had the opportunity to contribute this language to the corpus. I believe that the data collected will help enhance the multilingual scope of the project and support broader cross-linguistic investigations into reading behavior and language processing.
During my stay, I also presented the MultiplEYE project to researchers from ERI-Lectura at the University of Valencia. This presentation led to productive discussions about eye-tracking experiment design and sparked interest among local researchers in applying the findings of the project to their own work. I am grateful to MultiplEYE and the host institution for this enriching opportunity..