We agree with R3 that [3,37] pioneered gaze integration in NLP tasks, paving the

We thank all reviewers for their detailed and valuable feedback. In the following, we address the reviewers' comments We did not intend to claim we are the first to propose gaze integration in NLP . To the best of our knowledge, no previous works studied gaze integration for the paraphrase generation task. The authors did not reply to our requests for details on the splits. All ablations are inferior to our full model.