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- ReadCtrl: Personalizing text generation with readability-controlled instruction learning (Tran et al., In2Writing 2025)
- Adapting Sentence-level Automatic Metrics for Document-level Simplification Evaluation (Maddela & Alva-Manchego, NAACL 2025)
- Collaborative Document Simplification Using Multi-Agent Systems (Fang et al., COLING 2025)
- Analysing Zero-Shot Readability-Controlled Sentence Simplification (Barayan et al., COLING 2025)
- Is It Possible to Modify Text to a Target Readability Level? An Initial Investigation Using Zero-Shot Large Language Models (Farajidizaji et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
- Do Text Simplification Systems Preserve Meaning? A Human Evaluation via Reading Comprehension (Agrawal & Carpuat, TACL 2024)
- Study of Medical Text Reading and Comprehension through Eye-Tracking Fixations (Ivchenko & Grabar, CL4Health 2024)
- The BEA 2024 Shared Task on the Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline (Shardlow et al., BEA 2024)
- BLESS: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Sentence Simplification (Kew et al., EMNLP 2023)
- LENS: A Learnable Evaluation Metric for Text Simplification (Maddela et al., ACL 2023)
- Revisiting non-English Text Simplification: A Unified Multilingual Benchmark (Ryan et al., ACL 2023)
- Document-Level Planning for Text Simplification (Cripwell et al., EACL 2023)
- Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022) (Štajner et al., TSAR 2022)
- Findings of the TSAR-2022 Shared Task on Multilingual Lexical Simplification (Saggion et al., TSAR 2022)
- A Dataset of Word-Complexity Judgements from Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adults for Text Simplification (Alonzo et al., TSAR 2022)
- ALEXSIS: A Dataset for Lexical Simplification in Spanish (Ferrés & Saggion, LREC 2022)
- ALEXSIS-PT: A New Resource for Portuguese Lexical Simplification (North et al., COLING 2022)
- Lexical Simplification Benchmarks for English, Portuguese, and Spanish (Štajner et al., Froniers in AI 2022)
- Predicting Lexical Complexity in English Texts: The Complex 2.0 Dataset (Shardlow et al., LRE 2022)
- The (Un)Suitability of Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Text Simplification (Alva-Manchego et al., CL 2021)
- SemEval-2021 Task 1: Lexical Complexity Prediction (Shardlow et al., SemEval 2021)
- Automatic Text Simplification for Social Good: Progress and Challenges (Stajner, Findings 2021)
- Controllable Text Simplification with Explicit Paraphrasing (Maddela et al., NAACL 2021)
- Controllable Sentence Simplification with a Unified Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer (Sheang & Saggion, INLG 2021)
- SemEval-2021 Task 1: Lexical Complexity Prediction (Shardlow et al., SemEval 2021)
- Neural CRF Model for Sentence Alignment in Text Simplification (Jiang et al., ACL 2020)
- Automatic Text Simplification Tools for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Adults: Benefits of Lexical Simplification and Providing Users with Autonomy (Alonzo et al., CHI 2020)
- CompLex — A New Corpus for Lexical Complexity Prediction from Likert Scale Data (Shardlow et al., READI 2020)
- Controllable Sentence Simplification (Martin et al., LREC 2020)
- EASIER System. Language Resources for Cognitive Accessibility (Moreno et al., ASSETS 2020)