MultiplEYE final conference program released!

Skopje, North Macedonia
20-21 August 2026

Conference Venue Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering

Location ul. Rudzer Boshkovikj 16 https://maps.app.goo.gl/DnSbMQ6P3DLkZ9Ph8

Conference Room FINKI Amphitheater  ФИНКИ / FINKI – 360° VR Tour
Although unmarked, it is next to the FINKY Dean’s office (left). See the room in the main menu -> Amphitheaters -> FINKI Amphitheater

Read more on the conference website

Important dates
Mid July: Register for the conference here
July 20th: Upload of camera-ready version of abstract to the OpenReview system
August 5th: Registration closes

Official Program

20 August

8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Coffee

9:00-9:30 Opening Remarks (Local Organizer & MultiplEYE chairs)

9:30 – 10:30 Invited Talk 1 
Elizabeth R. Schotter: Reading efficiency: Optimal coordination between eye movements and distributed language processing 

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:15 MultiplEYE Session 1

12:15 – 13:00 Short Talks

12:15 Cui Ding, Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Lena Ann Jäger: Individual Differences of Spillover in Naturalistic Reading

12:30 Li Kloostra, Rick Nouwen, Jakub Dotlacil: Coherence illusions in discourse processing: eye-tracking and acceptability studies on presupposition resolution with ’again’

12:45 Candace M. van der Stelt, Elise Bossenbroek, Kelly Knollman-Porter, Karen Hux, Sarah E. Wallace: Effects of text simplification on reading comprehension accuracy, perceived difficulty, and reading fluency in post-stroke aphasia

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 15:30 MultiplEYE Session 2 

15:30 – 16:30 Invited Talk 2 
Noam Siegelman: Reading As Statistical Learning: New Insights from the Multilingual Eye-Movement Corpus (MECO) 

16:30 – 17:30 Poster Session and Coffee Break (7 posters)

19:00 Social Event / Dinner

Restaurant Lira

Location: Ul. Nikola Tesla 11 https://maps.app.goo.gl/mG1CxVxts1vmDeT76

21 August

8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Coffee 

9:00 – 10:00 Invited Talk 3
Ekta Sood: From Human Gaze to Behavior-Grounded AI  

10:00 – 10:45 Short Talks 

10:00 Daniel G. Krakowczyk, Carlson Moses Büth, David Robert Reich, Deborah Noemie Jakobi, Paul Prasse, Andreas Säuberli, Anastassia Shaitarova, Lena Ann Jäger: pymovements: Building Blocks for Reproducible Eye-Tracking Pipelines

10:15 Reinhold Kliegl, Maximilian M. Rabe: Integrating Statistical and Computational Modeling of Eye Movement Control in Reading with a Linked Mixture Model

10:30 Anna Bondar, David Robert Reich, Lena Ann Jäger: Mixture of Readers (MoRe): Enabling Scanpath Generation for Different Reader Groups

10:45 – 11:45 Poster Session and Coffee Break (7 posters)

11:45 – 12:30 Short Talks

11:45 Annika Kängsepp, Maarja-Liisa Pilvik, Kaidi Lõo, Külli Habicht, Liina Lindström: Reading standard and nonstandard parallel forms in Estonian

12:00 Johanne S. K. Nedergaard, Solvej W. Jaeger, Ivalo I. Mathiassen: Tracking reading in Kalaallisut: The morpheme as the basic unit of analysis

12:15 Maroš Filip, Michaela Svoboda, Kateřina Chládková: Eye-tracking of sign language: the effect of learning experience

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:00 Invited Talk 4 
Jochen Laubrock: The predictive reader: What large language models reveal about reading across languages and development

15:00 – 16:00 Poster Session and Coffee Break (7 posters)

16:00 – 16:30 Closing Remarks

Poster sessions

Day 1: 16:30 – 17:30 Poster Session and Coffee Break (7 posters)

  1. Kristina Cergol, Ana Matić, Eva Pavlinušić Vilus, Marijan Palmović: Looking ahead in L1 and L2          
  2. Jana Mara Hofmann, Deborah Noemie Jakobi, David Robert Reich, Paul Prasse, Lena Sophia Bolliger, Lena Ann Jäger: A Living Overview of Eye-Tracking-while-Reading Datasets with Open Library Support                     
  3. Jan Brasser, Vera Demberg, Lena Ann Jäger, Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz: Which reading measures are the strongest predictors of reading comprehension?           
  4. Shan Gao, Cui Ding, Lena Ann Jäger: A Multilingual Cross-Method Dataset for Evaluating Measurement Reliability of Individual Differences in Naturalistic Reading
  5. Daniele P. Radicioni, Patrizia Paggio, Alessandro Corona Mendozza, Matteo Delsanto, Alberto Parola, Viviana Patti, Calogero Jerik Scozzaro: Genre Effects on Eye Movements in Italian Reading: Evidence from the MultiplEYE IT Dataset   
  6. Adrielli Tina Lopes Rego, Joshua Snell, Martijn Meeter: Capturing comprehension in the reading brain: Effects from language model-derived propositions on eye movements
  7. Thyra Krosness, Not Battesta Soliva, Lena Ann Jäger: From the Alps to the Diaspora: A work-in-progress on reading profiles across Swiss minority and heritage languages

Day 2: 10:45 – 11:45 Poster Session and Coffee Break (7 posters)

  • Cengiz Acarturk, Anna Wilkosz, Melike Çağlayan, Jakub Jan Romanowski: Brain Activity Correlations in Reading: An Ongoing Study with fNIRS and Eye-Tracking Coregistration     
  • Hanne B. Søndergaard Knudsen, Kristine Jensen de Lopez, Nik Kharlamov: Reading comprehension, executive functions, and vocabulary in Danish adult L1 speakers
  • Lamija Zahirović, Lea Popović, Anastasija Žarevac, Eva Viktorija Zajc, Katarina Lasković, Kristian Elersič, Anja Podlesek: Working Memory Capacity and Eye Movement Patterns in Reading: A Correlational Analysis of Regressions in the Slovenian MultiplEYE Dataset
  • Onur Keleş, Sezen Bektaş Yüksel, Servet Arda Kayhan, Feyza Budan, İris Beyza Deveci, Nazik Dinctopal Deniz: Effects of context length and text genre on Turkish language models’ prediction of human reading: A lossy-context surprisal analysis                     
  • Rares-Alexandru Roscan, Oleksandra Kuvshynova, Mircea-Mihai Marin, Sergiu Nisioi: Investigating the Effect of Text Simplification on Reading Comprehension in Advanced L2 English Speakers
  • Daria Horga, Antonia-Maria Popeanga: Eye-Movement Patterns in Romanian Text Reading: A Linguistic Perspective

Day 2: 15:00 – 16:00 Poster Session and Coffee Break (7 posters)

  1. Thyra Krosness, Annette Lichtenauer, Claire Reymond, Lena Ann Jäger, Simone Girard-Groeber: A work-in-progress towards guidelines for designing Easy Language multiple choice reading comprehension items    
  2. Qingyang Tang, Bonnie Wing-Yin Chow, Alex Perovic: Irony Processing in Bilingual Adults with Autism: Exploring the Pragmatic-Cognitive  Interface through Eye-Tracking
  3. Hatice Ozata, Filiz Rızaoğlu: Reading Goals in Eye-Tracking Research: A Comparative Analysis of Purpose-Driven Processing in L1 and L2 Readers       
  4. Cengiz Acarturk, Esmehan Özer, Belgin Üstün Güllü, Halime Betül Kırmızı, Kardelen Çiftci: Eye Movements and Reading Comprehension in Neurodivergent Readers: A Study on Children with Formal ADHD Diagnosis
  5. Akshay Mendhakar, Helmut Leder: Evatrack: a flexible framework for standardised eye tracking research in reading research
  6. Isabelle Caroline Rose Cretton, David Robert Reich, Lena Ann Jäger: Surprisal by Design: A Principled Pipeline for Human-LLM Stimulus Pairs in Eye-Tracking Reading Experiments
  7. Jurgita Motiejūnienė, Ramunė Kasperė, Vilma Linkevičiūtė, Valdas Grigaliunas, Paulius Budreika: Methodological and accessibility challenges in eye-tracking research with Deaf and hard of hearing

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