Document classification on relevance: A study on eye gaze patterns for reading

Daniel Fahey*, Tom Gedeon, Dingyun Zhu

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    Abstract

    This paper presents a study that investigates the connection between the way that people read and the way that they understand content. The experiment consisted of having participants read some information on selected documents while an eye-tracking system recorded their eye movements. They were then asked to answer some questions and complete some tasks, on the information they had read. With the intention of investigating effective analysis approaches, both statistical methods and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) were applied to analyse the collected gaze data in terms of several defined measures regarding the relevance of the text. The results from the statistical analysis do not show any significant correlations between those measures and the relevance of the text. However, good classification results were obtained by using an Artificial Neural Network. This suggests that using advanced learning approaches may provide more insightful differentiations than simple statistical methods particularly in analysing eye gaze reading patterns.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 18th International Conference, ICONIP 2011, Proceedings
    Pages143-150
    Number of pages8
    EditionPART 2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2011
    Event18th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2011 - Shanghai, China
    Duration: 13 Nov 201117 Nov 2011

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    NumberPART 2
    Volume7063 LNCS
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference18th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2011
    Country/TerritoryChina
    CityShanghai
    Period13/11/1117/11/11

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