Program Overview

May 12, 2026

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Venue: Room 11, Palau de Congressos de Palma

Opening Remarks

09:00 - 09:15

Welcome to the Gaze4NLP 2026 Workshop by the organizing committee.

Session 1: Eye-Tracking Data in Reading and Language Processing

09:15 - 10:30
Eye tracking for Machine Translation Quality Evaluation
Natalia Glazyrina and Ondřej Bojar
Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Eye Movement Patterns: Insights from the First Arabic Eye-Tracking Corpus for NLP
Ibtehal Baazeem, Hend Al-Khalifa and Abdulmalik AlSalman
Exploring Cognitively Informed Sentence Simplification with Gaze- Guided Text Generation
Andreas Säuberli, Diego Frassinelli and Barbara Plank
Impact of Text Simplification on Eye-Tracking-Based Reading Profiles Across Domains
Oksana Ivchenko and Natalia Grabar
Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:00

Session 2: Eye-Tracking Data in Multimodal Context

11:00 - 13:00
Parts of Speech Shape Reading - Time Variability in Brazilian Portuguese
Diego Alves
CoordiMap: Conceptual Proposition of a new Framework for the An- notation of Verbal Elicitation Paths on Visual Experiment Stimuli and Introduction of the Associated Annotation Tool
Carmen Schacht
A Comparative Study Between Mouse and Eye Tracking Signals for Long Romanian Texts
Bogdan Alexandru Gheorghe and Sergiu Nisioi
Eye-Contact and Facial Expression Tracking for Assertiveness Training in VR-Based Anti-Bullying Education
Lubomir Ivanov, Anabel Nolasco and Mary Vrahimis
Predicting Gaze Location without Camera or Eye-Tracker
Saman Rezapoor, Sajad Shirali-Shahreza and Gerald Penn
A Survey of Incorporating Gaze Datai nto Natural Language Processing Models and Applications
Cengiz Acarturk, Burcu Can, Melike Caglayan, Jamal Abdul Nasir and Cagri Coltekin