Book Complexity Level Assignment in French and Portuguese

Jorge Baptista, David Antunes, Wafa Aissa, Julien Zakhia Doueihi, Hanh Trang Tran Pham, Eugénio Ribeiro, Thomas François, Raquel Amaro


Abstract
Selecting reading materials that are appropriate for adults with low literacy skills remains a central challenge in Adult Learning contexts. This challenge becomes particularly acute when the unit of analysis is not a short passage but a full book or long-form text, where internal heterogeneity in lexical, syntactic, and discourse-level properties make global readability estimation non-trivial. In practice, librarians, educators, and publishers often need to make decisions about the suitability of books for specific learner populations without access to complete texts, relying instead on partial excerpts or limited samples, and personal intuition.
Anthology ID:
2026.readi-1.2
Volume:
Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026
Month:
May
Year:
2026
Address:
Palma, Mallorca (Spain)
Editors:
Matthew Shardlow, Thomas François, Raquel Amaro, Jorge Baptista, Rémi Cardon, Eugénio Ribeiro, Horacio Saggion, Regina Stodden, Amalia Todirascu, Rodrigo Wilkens
Venues:
READI | TSAR | WS
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Publisher:
ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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Pages:
12–25
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External URL:
https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-readixtsar-02
DOI:
10.63317/3j3kwqx57g8u
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Cite (ACL):
Jorge Baptista, David Antunes, Wafa Aissa, Julien Zakhia Doueihi, Hanh Trang Tran Pham, Eugénio Ribeiro, Thomas François, and Raquel Amaro. 2026. Book Complexity Level Assignment in French and Portuguese. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026, pages 12–25, Palma, Mallorca (Spain). ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).
Cite (Informal):
Book Complexity Level Assignment in French and Portuguese (Baptista et al., READI-TSAR 2026)
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