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Wave 2 of the Multilingual Eye-Movement Corpus (MECO): New text reading data across languages
Noam Siegelman1, Sascha Schroeder2, Yaqian Borogjoon Bao3
1Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. noam.siegelman@mail.huji.ac.il.
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This paper reports the Wave 2 expansion of the Multilingual Eye-Movement Corpus (MECO), a collaborative multi-lab project collecting eye-tracking data on text reading in a variety of languages. The present expansion comes with new eye-tracking data of N = 654 from 13 languages, collected in 16 labs over 15 countries, including in several languages that have little to no representation in current eye-tracking studies on reading. MECO also contains demographic, language use, and other individual differences data. This paper makes available the first-language reading data of MECO Wave 2 and incorporates reliability estimates of all tests at the participant and item level, as well as other methods of data validation. It also reports the descriptive statistics on all languages, including comparisons with prior similar data, and outlines directions for potential reuse.
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