36.1263, Calls: IndiREAD Workshop (Germany)

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Subject: 36.1263, Calls: IndiREAD Workshop (Germany)

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Date: 14-Apr-2025
From: Laura Pissani [laura.pissani at uni-saarland.de]
Subject: IndiREAD Workshop


Full Title: IndiREAD Workshop
Theme: Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, 26-27 November, 2025

Date: 26-Nov-2025 - 27-Nov-2025
Location: Saarbrücken, Germany
Meeting Email: indiread at lst.uni-saarland.de
Web Site: https://www.uni-saarland.de/indiread

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Psycholinguistics

Call Deadline: 23-Jul-2025

Call for Papers:
We are excited to announce the call for the Workshop on Individual
Differences in Reading (IndiREAD,
https://www.uni-saarland.de/indiread), to take place at Saarland
University, in Saarbrücken, Germany, 26-27 November 2025.
IndiREAD is a workshop jointly organized by the ERC Project
“Individualized Interaction in Discourse” IDDISC and the MultiplEYE
COST action “Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for
human and machine language processing research”.
While experimental research in reading has a long tradition in
identifying key factors that influence reading patterns—including text
properties such as font difficulty, word and structure frequency, word
predictability, and dependency length—recent studies have emphasized
the importance of individual variability in reading behaviour (e.g.,
Haeuser & Kray, 2024; Kuperman et al., 2018; Nicenboim et al., 2016;
Staub, 2021). This work has linked individual variability in reading
patterns to differences in working memory capacity, reading skills,
linguistic experience, and domain expertise among readers. This
informs our understanding of how text characteristics and individual
reader attributes interact to shape eye movements during reading.
IndiREAD aims to bring together researchers interested in
investigating individual differences in reading using both
experimental and computational approaches. This workshop will focus on
methods such as eye-tracking, self-paced reading, and the Maze task,
with particular interest in how reading behaviour is correlated with
individual differences factors. We also encourage submissions of
computational models for eye movements or reading behavior that shed
light on the mechanisms behind these differences. The goal is to
foster collaboration between experimental and computational
researchers to better understand individual variability among readers.
We especially welcome submissions of reading time experiments and
modelling of languages beyond English.
The IndiREAD Workshop invites submissions of abstracts addressing the
following questions: 
1. How do individual differences impact the way people read?
2. How do reading patterns vary across different languages,
particularly in bilinguals?
3. How do reading patterns change across the lifespan?
4. Which individual difference measures are most suitable for
capturing variability in reading patterns?
5. How can we evaluate psycholinguistic theories of reading and
sentence processing across languages?
6. How can computational models account for individual differences in
reading?
7. How does text adaptation influence reading patterns and
comprehension among different individuals?
8. What statistical methods are best suited for reliably identifying
latent groups and relating individual differences to reading
performance?
Workshop dates: November 26-27, 2025
Workshop format: The workshop will be held in-person in Saarbrücken,
Germany. It will feature presentations from invited speakers, as well
as contributions based on workshop submissions. The format of the
presentations (oral or poster) will be determined based on the number
of submissions we receive.
Submissions: We invite abstracts from interested presenters, to be
submitted by July 23, 2025 to the conference portal on OpenReview.
The abstracts must not exceed 1000 words for the text (excl.
captions), 10000 characters for references, and a maximum of 2 tables
or figures. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format, with 2.54 cm
margins on all sides and 12 point font size, single-spaced. Please
indicate up to three appropriate keywords for your abstract, which
will be used for session planning.
Abstracts must be written in English and should include a clear title
but no information revealing the author(s).
We welcome submissions for work that is being considered by other
conferences, workshops, or journals. Templates for formatting in LaTeX
and Word are provided on the conference website.
Submissions: https://openreview.net/group?id=IndiREAD/2025
Volunteer reviewers: We also invite all interested parties with
relevant research experience to volunteer to help review abstracts for
the workshop. All reviewers should hold a PhD. Please indicate your
interest using the following form:
https://forms.office.com/e/0fGmHW7q11
Conference website: https://www.uni-saarland.de/indiread
Contact email: indiread at lst.uni-saarland.de
Travel grants: This workshop is sponsored by the MultiplEYE COST
Action, which will provide financial support to cover travel expenses
for a limited number of participants. Authors will be invited to apply
for travel funding upon abstract acceptance. Funding may be partial,
and priority will be given to junior researchers.



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