IndiREAD Workshop 2025: 3rd Call for Papers
Saarbrücken, Germany, November 26-27, 2025
IndiREAD is a workshop jointly organized by the ERC Project
"Individualized Interaction in Discourse" IDDISC [1] and the MultiplEYE
COST [2] 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. 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:
* How do individual differences impact the way people read?
* How do reading patterns vary across different languages,
particularly in bilinguals?
* How do reading patterns change across the lifespan?
* Which individual difference measures are most suitable for capturing
variability in reading patterns?
* How can we evaluate psycholinguistic theories of reading and
sentence processing across languages?
* How can computational models account for individual differences in
reading?
* How does text adaptation influence reading patterns and
comprehension among different individuals?
* 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.
Submission deadline: July 23, 2025.
Submissions: 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.
Submission platform: 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 [3]
Contact email: [email protected]
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.
Best,
Iza Škrjanec
IndiREAD Organizing Committee
Links:
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[1]
https://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/demberg/individualized-interaction-in-discourse-iddisc.html
[2] https://multipleye.eu/
[3] https://www.uni-saarland.de/indiread
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