@inproceedings{scozzaro-etal-2024-legal,
    title = "Legal Text Reader Profiling: Evidences from Eye Tracking and Surprisal Based Analysis",
    author = "Scozzaro, Calogero J.  and
      Colla, Davide  and
      Delsanto, Matteo  and
      Mastropaolo, Antonio  and
      Mensa, Enrico  and
      Revelli, Luisa  and
      Radicioni, Daniele P.",
    editor = "Nunzio, Giorgio Maria Di  and
      Vezzani, Federica  and
      Ermakova, Liana  and
      Azarbonyad, Hosein  and
      Kamps, Jaap",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on DeTermIt! Evaluating Text Difficulty in a Multilingual Context @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.determit-1.11",
    pages = "114--124",
    abstract = "Reading movements and times are a precious cue to follow reader{'}s strategy, and to track the underlying effort in text processing. To date, many approaches are being devised to simplify texts to overcome difficulties stemming from sentences obscure, ambiguous or deserving clarification. In the legal domain, ensuring the clarity of norms and regulations is of the utmost importance, as the full understanding of such documents lies at the foundation of core social obligations and rights. This task requires determining which utterances and text excerpts are difficult for which (sort of) reader. This investigation is the aim of the present work. We propose a preliminary study based on eye-tracking data of 61 readers, with focus on individuating different reader profiles, and on predicting reading times of our readers.",
}

Reading movements and times are a precious cue to follow reader{'}s strategy, and to track the underlying effort in text processing. To date, many approaches are being devised to simplify texts to overcome difficulties stemming from sentences obscure, ambiguous or deserving clarification. In the legal domain, ensuring the clarity of norms and regulations is of the utmost importance, as the full understanding of such documents lies at the foundation of core social obligations and rights. This task requires determining which utterances and text excerpts are difficult for which (sort of) reader. This investigation is the aim of the present work. We propose a preliminary study based on eye-tracking data of 61 readers, with focus on individuating different reader profiles, and on predicting reading times of our readers.
Scozzaro, Calogero J. Colla, Davide Delsanto, Matteo Mastropaolo, Antonio Mensa, Enrico Revelli, Luisa Radicioni, Daniele P.
Legal Text Reader Profiling: Evidences from Eye Tracking and Surprisal Based Analysis