Resources

Books and Surveys

• Lexical Complexity Prediction: An Overview (North et al., ACM Computing Surveys 2023)
• Data-Driven Sentence Simplification: Survey and Benchmark (Alva-Manchego et al., CL 2020)
• Automatic Text Simplification (Saggion, Synth. Lect. Hum. Lang 2017)
• A Survey on Lexical Simplification (Paetzold & Specia, JAIR 2017)
• A Survey of Automated Text Simplification (Shardlow, IJACSA 2014)
• A Survey of Research on Text Simplification (Siddharthan, ITL 2014)

Tutorials

• Automatic and Human-AI Interactive Text Generation (with a focus on Text Simplification and Revision) (Dou et al., ACL 2024) [pdf]
• Data-Driven Text Simplification (Štajner & Saggion, COLING 2018) [pdf] [slides] [bibliography]

Papers

• 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)