Schedule
Friday, 15 November 2024 (Hyatt Regency Miami)
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Welcome – Presented by: Matthew Shardlow |
| 09:20 - 10:00 | Invited Talk 1: Easy-to-understand Writing with AI Assistance (Walburga Fröhlich) – Session Chair: Matthew Shardlow |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Poster Micro-pitches – Session Chair: Matthew Shardlow |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Oral Session 1: Main Track – Session Chair: Fernando Alva-Manchego |
| Cochrane-auto: An Aligned Dataset for the Simplification of Biomedical Abstracts Jan Bakker and Jaap Kamps | |
| Images Speak Volumes: User-Centric Assessment of Image Generation for Accessible Communication Miriam Anschütz, Tringa Sylaj and Georg Groh | |
| Society of Medical Simplifiers Chen Lyu and Gabriele Pergola | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00 - 14:40 | Poster Session – Session Chair: Matthew Shardlow (in-person), Kai North (virtual), Regina Stodden (virtual) |
| CompLex-ZH: A New Dataset for Lexical Complexity Prediction in Mandarin and Cantonese [poster] Le Qiu, Shanyue Guo, Tak-sum Wong, Emmanuele Chersoni, John Sie Yuen Lee and Chu-Ren Huang | |
| MultiLS: An End-to-End Lexical Simplification Framework Kai North, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Matthew Shardlow and Marcos Zampieri | |
| Considering Human Interaction and Variability in Automatic Text Simplification [poster] Jenia Kim, Stefan Leijnen and Lisa Beinborn | |
| OtoBERT: Identifying Suffixed Verbal Forms in Modern Hebrew Literature [poster] Avi Shmidman and Shaltiel Shmidman | |
| Difficult for Whom? A study of Japanese Lexical Complexity Adam Nohejl, Akio Hayakawa, Yusuke Ide and Taro Watanabe | |
| EASSE-DE & EASSE-multi: Easier Automatic Sentence Simplification Evaluation for German & Multiple Languages [poster] Regina Stodden | |
| Evaluating the Simplification of Brazilian Legal Rulings in LLMs Using Readability Scores as a Target [poster] Antonio Flavio Castro Paula and Celso G. Camilo-Junior | |
| Measuring and Modifying the Readability of English Texts with GPT-4 [poster] Sean Trott and Pamela Rivière | |
| SpeciaLex: A Benchmark for In-Context Specialized Lexicon Learning (Findings) Joseph Marvin Imperial and Harish Tayyar Madabushi | |
| README: Bridging Medical Jargon and Lay Understanding for Patient Education through Data-Centric NLP (Findings) Zonghai Yao, Nandyala Siddharth Kantu, Guanghao Wei, Hieu Tran, Zhangqi Duan, Sunjae Kwon, Zhichao Yang, README annotation team, and Hong Yu | |
| Automating Easy Read Text Segmentation (Findings) Jesús Calleja, Thierry Etchegoyhen, and David Ponce | |
| 14:40 - 15:30 | Invited Talk 2: Artificial Intelligence and Plain Language (Iria da Cunha) – Session Chair: Horacio Saggion |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 16:45 | Oral Session 2: Special Track – Session Chair: Marcos Zampieri |
| Lexical Complexity Prediction and Lexical Simplification for Catalan and Spanish Horacio Saggion, Stefan Bott, Sandra Szasz, Nelson Pérez, Saúl Calderón and Martín Solís | |
| SciGisPy: a Novel Metric for Biomedical Text Simplification via Gist Inference Score Chen Lyu and Gabriele Pergola | |
| 16:45 - 17:30 | Round Table – Session Chair: Horacio Saggion |
| 17:30 - 17:35 | Closing – Presented by: Matthew Shardlow |
Invited Speakers
Iria da Cunha
Associate Professor at UNED, Spain
