@inproceedings{marzi-etal-2026-reading,
    title = "Reading Dynamics and Comprehension in Cognitive Aging: A Multimodal Language Resource",
    author = "Marzi, Claudia  and
      Boni, Noemi  and
      Todesco, Alice  and
      Nadalini, Andrea  and
      Albertin, Giorgia  and
      Dolciotti, Cristina  and
      Bongioanni, Paolo  and
      Ferro, Marcello  and
      Tamburini, Fabio  and
      Gagliardi, Gloria  and
      Pirrelli, Vito",
    editor = "Piperidis, Stelios  and
      Bel, N{\'u}ria  and
      van den Heuvel, Henk  and
      Ide, Nancy  and
      Krek, Simon  and
      Toral, Antonio",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/paragraph-normalization/2026.lrec-1.204/",
    doi = "10.63317/3wjy3a8cwnw8",
    pages = "2608--2618",
    abstract = "We introduce a novel italian language resource for the study of reading and comprehension in aging populations, combining behavioural and linguistic data from healthy controls (HC), individuals with subjective cognitive decline (SCI), participants with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), and patients with mild dementia (CDR1). Reading performance was recorded through a finger-tracking based application during both silent and oral reading, enabling fine-grained temporal analyses at the text, token and character level. Comprehension was assessed via multiple question types (wh-, inferential, referential, and lexical). Descriptive and non-linear regression analyses informed a feature selection process, yielding temporal and comprehension-based measures that capture individual reading dynamics. These features were explored through unsupervised clustering and supervised classification to investigate their discriminative and predictive potential across cognitive profiles. The resource supports research on reading and cognitive decline, offers a reproducible protocol for large-scale data collection, and provides a foundation for developing early cognitive screening and monitoring tools or aging populations."
}