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.- Anthology ID:
- L16-1077
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Portorož, Slovenia
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 480–487
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/L16-1077
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Victoria Yaneva, Irina Temnikova, and Ruslan Mitkov. 2016. A Corpus of Text Data and Gaze Fixations from Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 480–487, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- A Corpus of Text Data and Gaze Fixations from Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults (Yaneva et al., LREC 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/L16-1077.pdf