📰 Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 — accepted papers

Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC, held in Palma, Mallorca (Spain), May 2026 (publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)). The ACL Anthology lists 17 papers of it; our library holds 3 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

All accepted papers (17)

The most cited first; 3 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. A Comparative Study of Multilingual Fine-tuning and Prompting for Automatic Text Readability Classification in GalicianSandra Rodríguez Rey, Marcos Garcia
2. A Learner-Oriented Annotated Resource of French Multiword Expressions for Text Adaptation in Foreign Language ReadingAnna Kalinina, Thomas François, Hélène Vassiliadou et al.
3. A Meta-evaluation of Automatic Metrics for Elaborative SimplificationAbdullah Alshatti, Steven Schockaert, Fernando Alva-Manchego
4. Automatic Extraction of Textual and Phonemic Complexity for French Cued SpeechMagali Norré, Brigitte Bigi, Núria Gala et al.our summary
5. Automatic Text Simplification for French Medical Documents with LLMs: The Role of Target Audience and GenreRémi Cardon, A. Seza Doğruöz
6. Book Complexity Level Assignment in French and PortugueseJorge Baptista, David Antunes, Wafa Aissa et al.
7. Can LLMs Control Readability? A Multi-Dimensional Evaluation Framework for CEFR-Controlled Arabic GenerationNour Rabih, Chatrine Qwaider, Ted Briscoe
8. Evaluating Transformer Model Family Representations Through Automated Essay ScoringAkchay Ozten, Rodrigo Wilkens
9. LLM-Generated Stories for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities: Promise, Gaps, and Evaluation FrameworkPragati Maheshwary, Ananya Ganesh, Shamya Karumbaiah
10. Language Proficiency as a Recoverable Dimension in Multilingual LLM EmbeddingsRodrigo Wilkens
11. Lexical Conditioning of Model's Distribution through Uncertainty-gated Soft-Mixing of ProbabilitiesMichele Papucci, Giulia Venturi, Felice Dell'Orletta
12. PLABA-EVAL: A Multi-Dimensional, In-Context Sentence Readability Dataset for Medical TextKexin Bian, Su-Youn Yoon, Mamoru Komachi
13. Plan-Guided Text Simplification with Extended ContextsPascal Mathas, Jan Bakker, Jaap Kampsour summary
14. Proficiency-Controlled Text Simplification in European Portuguese: A Preliminary Study using Prompting ApproachesEugénio Ribeiro, David Antunes, Nuno Mamede et al.our summary
15. Readability Measures in Automatic Text Simplification: Is Simplification Quality a Coherent Construct?Rémi Cardon, A. Seza Doğruöz
16. Revisiting German Complex Word Identification: Contextualized LLMs and Feature InjectionThorben Schomacker, Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann et al.
17. Taming CATS: Controllable Automatic Text Simplification through Instruction Fine-Tuning with Control TokensHanna Hubarava, Yingqiang Gao

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (3)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. Plan-Guided Text Simplification with Extended ContextsJoint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LRECPascal Mathas, Jan Bakker, Jaap Kamps2026 · 1 citation
2. Automatic Extraction of Textual and Phonemic Complexity for French Cued SpeechJoint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LRECMagali Norré, Brigitte Bigi, Núria Gala, et al.2026
3. Proficiency-Controlled Text Simplification in European Portuguese: A Preliminary Study using Prompting ApproachesJoint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LRECEugénio Ribeiro, David Antunes, Nuno Mamede, et al.2026

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

🧠Language models & pretraining (1)French (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (3)🖥️Computer Science (3)💭Psychology (1)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🎓Iscte – Instituto Universitário de LisboaLisbon · Portugal1 work here🔬Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e DesenvolvimentoLisbon · Portugal1 work here🔬Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueParis · France1 work here🎓Aix-Marseille UniversitéMarseille · France1 work here🔬Laboratoire Parole et LangageAix-en-Provence · France1 work here🎓University of AmsterdamAmsterdam · Netherlands1 work here🎓UCLouvainLouvain-la-Neuve · Belgium1 work here

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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