Utilizing Cognitive Signals Generated during Human Reading to Enhance Keyphrase Extraction from Microblogs
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This paper investigates whether EEG signals can complement eye-tracking signals for automatic keyphrase extraction from microblogs. Using the ZuCo corpus, the authors show that cognitive signals, especially EEG, improve AKE performance across different models.
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# Utilizing Cognitive Signals Generated during Human Reading to Enhance Keyphrase Extraction from Microblogs Source: [https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26485](https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26485) [View PDF](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.26485) > Abstract:Microblogging platforms generate massive amounts of short, noisy, and dispersed user content, making automatic keyphrase extraction \(AKE\) an important but challenging task\. Prior studies have used eye\-tracking signals to improve microblog\-based AKE because such signals reflect readers' attention to salient words\. However, eye tracking alone is limited by physiological, acquisition, and feature\-decoding constraints\. To address this issue, we investigate whether electroencephalogram \(EEG\) signals can complement eye\-tracking signals for AKE\. Using the ZuCo cognitive language processing corpus, we select 8 EEG features and 17 eye\-tracking features and incorporate them into microblog\-based AKE models\. To reduce possible distortion of cognitive signals by model structures, we inject these features into the input of the soft\-attention layer and the query vectors of the self\-attention layer\. We then evaluate different combinations of cognitive signals across AKE models\. The results show that cognitive signals produced during reading consistently improve AKE performance, regardless of feature combinations and model architectures\. EEG features bring the largest gains, while combining EEG and eye\-tracking features yields performance between the two individual signal types, suggesting partial complementarity but also possible redundancy or noise\. These findings indicate that EEG signals provide useful cognitive evidence for microblog\-based AKE and that multimodal cognitive signals deserve further investigation\. ## Submission history From: Chengzhi Zhang \[[view email](https://arxiv.org/show-email/05c2844d/2606.26485)\] **\[v1\]**Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:43:12 UTC \(1,696 KB\)
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