Continue or Stop Reading? Modeling Decisions in Information Search

Francisco López-Orozco, Anne Guérin-Dugué, Benoît Lemaire

2012

Abstract

This paper presents a cognitive computational model of the way people read a paragraph with the task of quickly deciding whether it is better related to a given goal than another paragraph processed previously. In particular, the model attempts to predict the time at which participants would decide to stop reading the current paragraph because they have enough information to make their decision. We proposed a two-variable linear threshold to account for that decision, based on the rank of the fixation and the difference of semantic similarities between each paragraph and the goal. Our model performance is compared to the eye tracking data of 22 participants.

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López-Orozco F., Guérin-Dugué A. and Lemaire B. (2012). Continue or Stop Reading? Modeling Decisions in Information Search . In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLPCS, (ICEIS 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-16-7, pages 96-105. DOI: 10.5220/0004099900960105


in Bibtex Style

@conference{nlpcs12,
author={Francisco López-Orozco and Anne Guérin-Dugué and Benoît Lemaire},
title={Continue or Stop Reading? Modeling Decisions in Information Search},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLPCS, (ICEIS 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={96-105},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004099900960105},
isbn={978-989-8565-16-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science - Volume 1: NLPCS, (ICEIS 2012)
TI - Continue or Stop Reading? Modeling Decisions in Information Search
SN - 978-989-8565-16-7
AU - López-Orozco F.
AU - Guérin-Dugué A.
AU - Lemaire B.
PY - 2012
SP - 96
EP - 105
DO - 10.5220/0004099900960105