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author = "Jung, Jimin and
Kim, MyoungJin and
Seo, Jaehyung and
Lim, Heuiseok",
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Moreira, Viviane P. and
Zhang, Jiajun and
Jurgens, David",
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abstract = "The Plain Writing Act in the United States requires government documents to be written in clear and simple language. However, existing summarization systems struggle to address diverse linguistic and cognitive barriers among general readers. We propose NRLB (No Reader Left Behind), a unified multi-agent framework for plain language summarization that simulates three representative reader groups: elementary school students, non-native speakers, and readers with attention deficits. NRLB integrates template-based planning with an iterative feedback loop guided by simulated readers and domain expert revision to address comprehension barriers such as unknown terms, missing contexts, and confusing sentences. Evaluations across multiple datasets demonstrate consistent improvements in both readability and factuality. Human evaluation further supports these findings, with annotator preference rates ranging from 55{\%} to 76{\%}, highlighting NRLB{'}s ability to generate summaries that are both faithful to the source and accessible to a wide range of readers."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T No Reader Left Behind: Multi-Agent Summaries Everyone Can Understand
%A Jung, Jimin
%A Kim, MyoungJin
%A Seo, Jaehyung
%A Lim, Heuiseok
%Y Liakata, Maria
%Y Moreira, Viviane P.
%Y Zhang, Jiajun
%Y Jurgens, David
%S Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
%D 2026
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C San Diego, California, United States
%@ 979-8-89176-390-6
%F jung-etal-2026-reader
%X The Plain Writing Act in the United States requires government documents to be written in clear and simple language. However, existing summarization systems struggle to address diverse linguistic and cognitive barriers among general readers. We propose NRLB (No Reader Left Behind), a unified multi-agent framework for plain language summarization that simulates three representative reader groups: elementary school students, non-native speakers, and readers with attention deficits. NRLB integrates template-based planning with an iterative feedback loop guided by simulated readers and domain expert revision to address comprehension barriers such as unknown terms, missing contexts, and confusing sentences. Evaluations across multiple datasets demonstrate consistent improvements in both readability and factuality. Human evaluation further supports these findings, with annotator preference rates ranging from 55% to 76%, highlighting NRLB’s ability to generate summaries that are both faithful to the source and accessible to a wide range of readers.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.2/
%P 87-116
Markdown (Informal)
[No Reader Left Behind: Multi-Agent Summaries Everyone Can Understand](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.2/) (Jung et al., ACL 2026)
ACL
- Jimin Jung, MyoungJin Kim, Jaehyung Seo, and Heuiseok Lim. 2026. No Reader Left Behind: Multi-Agent Summaries Everyone Can Understand. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 87–116, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.