From Complexity Scores to Readable Texts: iRead4Skills for Adult Literacy in Portuguese

Jorge Baptista, Eugénio Ribeiro, Nuno Mamede, David Antunes, Raquel Amaro


Abstract
Adult Learning (AL) programmes need short, trustworthy texts that match learners’ reading abilities, but educators rarely have time, tools, or evidence-based guidelines to select and adapt materials consistently.We present a live demo of iRead4Skills for European Portuguese: a web-based system that (i) estimates readability/complexity for AL-oriented levels aligned with CEFR, (ii) highlights where complexity concentrates (lexical, grammatical, semantic), and (iii) supports rewriting by offering actionable, level-aware suggestions and curated lexical resources.The demo emphasises transparency and “trainer-first” workflows: users see *why* a text is complex and *how* to revise it without losing meaning.
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2026.propor-2.2
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Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2026) - Vol. 2
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April
Year:
2026
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Salvador, Brazil
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Marlo Souza, Iria de-Dios-Flores, Diana Santos, Larissa Freitas, Jackson Wilke da Cruz Souza, Eugénio Ribeiro
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PROPOR
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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5–7
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Jorge Baptista, Eugénio Ribeiro, Nuno Mamede, David Antunes, and Raquel Amaro. 2026. From Complexity Scores to Readable Texts: iRead4Skills for Adult Literacy in Portuguese. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2026) - Vol. 2, pages 5–7, Salvador, Brazil. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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From Complexity Scores to Readable Texts: iRead4Skills for Adult Literacy in Portuguese (Baptista et al., PROPOR 2026)
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