Program Overview

September 12, 2025

Friday, September 12, 2025

Venue: Galata Hall, Hotel Cherno More

Opening Remarks

09:00 - 09:15

Welcome to the Gaze4NLP 2025 Workshop by the organizing committee.

Session 1: Oculomotor Processing and Eye-Tracking Data

09:15 - 10:45
What determines where readers fixate next? Leveraging NLP to investigate human cognition
Adrielli Tina Lopes Rego, Joshua Snell and Martijn Meeter
Where Patients Slow Down: Surprisal, Uncertainty, and Simplification in French Clinical Reading
Oksana Ivchenko, Alamgir Munir Qazi and Jamal Abdul Nasir
Predicting Total Reading Time Using Romanian Eye-Tracking Data
Anamaria Hodivoianu, Oleksandra Kuvshynova, Filip Popovici, Adrian Luca and Sergiu Nisioi
Coffee Break 10:45 - 11:00

Session 2: Eye-Tracking Data and Language Models

11:00 - 12:30
Benchmarking Language Model Surprisal for Eye-Tracking Predictions in Brazilian Portuguese
JDiego Alves
Comparing Eye-gaze and Transformer Attention Mechanisms in Reading Tasks
Maria Mouratidi and Massimo Poesio
AlEYEgnment: Leveraging Eye‑Tracking‑while‑Reading to Align Language Models with Human Preferences
Anna Bondar, David Robert Reich and Lena Ann Jäger
Lunch Break 12:30 - 14:00

Session 3: Applications - Corpus

14:00 - 15:30
AEgoDrive: Egocentric Multimodal Driver Behavior Recognition using Project Aria
Michael Rice, Lorenz Krause and Waqar Shahid Qureshi
A French Eye-Tracking Corpus of Original and Simplified Medical, Clinical, and General Texts - FETA
Oksana Ivchenko and Natalia Grabar
Exploring Mouse Tracking for Reading on Romanian Data
Cristina Maria Popescu and Sergiu Nisioi

Concluding Session: Workshop Summary and Discussion - Future work and roadmaps

Time: 15:30 - 17:00 (Break 16:15-16:30)