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Do Cantonese-Adapted Language Models Better Predict Cantonese Reading? A Cross-Model Eye-Tracking Evaluation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 2, 2026 · UTC

Information-theoretic measures derived from autoregressive language models are widely used to characterize the expectations that shape human reading, but whether language-variety-specific training improves such psycholinguistic alignment remains unclear. This question is still open for Cantonese, where recent NLP evaluations reported mixed benefits from Cantonese-specific training relative to Mandarin-oriented or general-purpose models. Using naturalistic Cantonese eye-tracking data, we compare two within-family adaptation contrasts: CKIP GPT-2 Tiny versus its lightly Cantonese-adapted JED351

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