Jan Brasser

Jan Brasser, M.A.

PhD Candidate
Digital Linguistics

Room number: AND 2.50

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I am PhD candidate in Computational Linguistics, supervised by Prof. Dr. Lena A. Jäger. I have a Bachelor's degree in English Literature and Linguistics and a Master's degree in Linguistics with focus area Digital Linguistics from the UZH. In my Master's Thesis, I used Eye-Movement data from readers reading in a foreign language to train a language model to predict the readers' second language skills.

My main interests lie in reading skill development and reading comprehension. My current main projects are "Lesen im Blick": Eye-tracking based diagnosis of developmental language disorders, in which we investigate the relationships between eye-movments and the development of reading disorders in children, and "Language Models for Reading Comprehension Questions", in which we investigate how to leverage eye-movement data to investigate and monitor reading skill development.

Teaching

Spring Semester 2026:

Programming Techniques in Computational Linguistics 2 - Lecture

Spring Semester 2025:

Programming Techniques in Computational Linguistics 2 - Lecture

Autumn Semester 2024:

Introduction to Language Data Processing - Lecture

Autumn Semester 2023:

Introduction to Language Data Processing - Tutorial

Spring Semester 2023:

Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit - Tutorial

Autumn Semester 2022:

Language Data Processing - Tutorial

Spring Semester 2022:

Sprachtechnologie als Beitrag zur Barrierefreiheit - Tutorial

Eye tracking: Experiment design and machine learning methods -Tutorial

Autumn Semester 2021:

Quantitative Methods - Tutorial

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Kasperė, R., Bondar, A., Nisioi, S., Stegenwallner-Schütz, M., Knudsen, H. B. S., Matić, A., Pavlinušić Vilus, E., Klimek-Jankowska, D., Tschirner, C., Soliva, N. B., Jakobi, D. N., Ding, C., Romi, D. A., Acarturk, C., Agdler, M., Alexandru, A. M., Ansari, M. F., Arcidiacono, A., Barisa, E. A. V., … Jäger, L. A. (2026). The MultiplEYE Text Corpus: Towards a Diverse and Ever-Expanding Multilingual Text Corpus 6706–6721. https://doi.org/10.63317/42gkpf6a6x2x
Siegelman, N., Schroeder, S., Bao, Y. B., Acartürk, C., Agrawal, N., Bolliger, L. S., Brasser, J., Campos-Rojas, C., Drieghe, D., Filipović Đurđević, D., Goldina, S., Ibáñez Orellana, R., Jäger, L., Jóhannesson, Ó. I., Khare, A., Kharlamov, N., Knudsen, H. B. S., Kristjánsson, Á., Lee, C. E., … et al. (2025). Wave 2 of the Multilingual Eye-Movement Corpus (MECO): New text reading data across languages Scientific Data, 12, 1183. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05453-3
Brasser, J., Tschirner, C., Stegenwallner-Schütz, M., Jakobi, D. N., & Jäger, L. (2025). Predicting Children’s Reading Comprehension Through Eye Movements: Insights from Visual Search and Interpretable Machine Learning (Y. Sugano, M. Khamis, A. Chetouani, L. Sidenmark, & A. Bruno, Eds.; p. 116). ACM Digital library. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715669.3726844
Kuperman, V., Schroeder, S., Acartürk, C., Agrawal, N., Alexandre, D. M., Bolliger, L. S., Brasser, J., Campos-Rojas, C., Drieghe, D., et al, Reich, D. R., & Jäger, L. (2025). New data on text reading in English as a second language: The Wave 2 expansion of the Multilingual Eye-Movement Corpus (MECO) Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 47, 677–695. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263125000105

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