Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026
LREC 2026 Workshop
Revisiting German Complex Word Identification: Contextualized LLMs and Feature Injection
Thorben Schomacker, Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann, Marina Tropmann-Frick
Book Complexity Level Assignment in French and Portuguese
Jorge Baptista, David Antunes, Wafa Aissa, Julien Zakhia Doueihi, Hanh Trang Tran Pham, Eugénio Ribeiro, Thomas François, Raquel Amaro
Taming CATS: Controllable Automatic Text Simplification through Instruction Fine-Tuning with Control Tokens
Hanna Hubarava, Yingqiang Gao
PLABA-EVAL: A Multi-Dimensional, In-Context Sentence Readability Dataset for Medical Text
Kexin Bian, Su-Youn Yoon, Mamoru Komachi
Automatic Extraction of Textual and Phonemic Complexity for French Cued Speech
Magali Norré, Brigitte Bigi, Núria Gala, Ludivine Javourey Drevet, Thomas François
Can LLMs Control Readability? A Multi-Dimensional Evaluation Framework for CEFR-Controlled Arabic Generation
Nour Rabih, Chatrine Qwaider, Ted Briscoe
Lexical Conditioning of Model’s Distribution through Uncertainty-gated Soft-Mixing of Probabilities
Michele Papucci, Giulia Venturi, Felice Dell'Orletta
A Comparative Study of Multilingual Fine-tuning and Prompting for Automatic Text Readability Classification in Galician
Sandra Rodríguez Rey, Marcos Garcia
Plan-Guided Text Simplification with Extended Contexts
Pascal Mathas, Jan Bakker, Jaap Kamps
LLM-Generated Stories for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities: Promise, Gaps, and Evaluation Framework
Pragati Maheshwary, Ananya Ganesh, Shamya Karumbaiah
Evaluating Transformer Model Family Representations Through Automated Essay Scoring
Akchay Ozten, Rodrigo Wilkens
Proficiency-Controlled Text Simplification in European Portuguese: A Preliminary Study using Prompting Approaches
Eugénio Ribeiro, David Antunes, Nuno Mamede, Jorge Baptista
Automatic Text Simplification for French Medical Documents with LLMs: The Role of Target Audience and Genre
Rémi Cardon, A. Seza Dogruoz
A Learner-Oriented Annotated Resource of French Multiword Expressions for Text Adaptation in Foreign Language Reading
Anna Kalinina, Thomas François, Hélène Vassiliadou, Amalia Todirascu
A Meta-evaluation of Automatic Metrics for Elaborative Simplification
Abdullah Alshatti, Steven Schockaert, Fernando Alva-Manchego
Readability Measures in Automatic Text Simplification: Is Simplification Quality a Coherent Construct?
Rémi Cardon, A. Seza Dogruoz
Language Proficiency as a Recoverable Dimension in Multilingual LLM Embeddings
Rodrigo Wilkens
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