Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026

Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 Matthew Shardlow editor Thomas François editor Raquel Amaro editor Jorge Baptista editor Rémi Cardon editor Eugénio Ribeiro editor Horacio Saggion editor Regina Stodden editor Amalia Todirascu editor Rodrigo Wilkens editor 2026-05 ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) text conference publication readi-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.0/ Revisiting German Complex Word Identification: Contextualized LLMs and Feature Injection Thorben Schomacker author Seid Muhie Yimam author Chris Biemann author Marina Tropmann-Frick author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 Matthew Shardlow editor Thomas François editor Raquel Amaro editor Jorge Baptista editor Rémi Cardon editor Eugénio Ribeiro editor Horacio Saggion editor Regina Stodden editor Amalia Todirascu editor Rodrigo Wilkens editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication schomacker-etal-2026-revisiting 10.63317/4z33nthezmjs https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.1/ 2026-05 1 11 Book Complexity Level Assignment in French and Portuguese Jorge Baptista author David Antunes author Wafa Aissa author Julien Zakhia Doueihi author Hanh Trang Tran Pham author Eugénio Ribeiro author Thomas François author Raquel Amaro author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 Matthew Shardlow editor Thomas François editor Raquel Amaro editor Jorge Baptista editor Rémi Cardon editor Eugénio Ribeiro editor Horacio Saggion editor Regina Stodden editor Amalia Todirascu editor Rodrigo Wilkens editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication baptista-etal-2026-book 10.63317/3j3kwqx57g8u https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.2/ 2026-05 12 25 Taming CATS: Controllable Automatic Text Simplification through Instruction Fine-Tuning with Control Tokens Hanna Hubarava author Yingqiang Gao author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 Matthew Shardlow editor Thomas François editor Raquel Amaro editor Jorge Baptista editor Rémi Cardon editor Eugénio Ribeiro editor Horacio Saggion editor Regina Stodden editor Amalia Todirascu editor Rodrigo Wilkens editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication hubarava-gao-2026-taming 10.63317/2zbasvvoqiae https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.3/ 2026-05 26 48 PLABA-EVAL: A Multi-Dimensional, In-Context Sentence Readability Dataset for Medical Text Kexin Bian author Su-Youn Yoon author Mamoru Komachi author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 Matthew Shardlow editor Thomas François editor Raquel Amaro editor Jorge Baptista editor Rémi Cardon editor Eugénio Ribeiro editor Horacio Saggion editor Regina Stodden editor Amalia Todirascu editor Rodrigo Wilkens editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication bian-etal-2026-plaba 10.63317/2y6bctu9etkj https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.4/ 2026-05 49 60 Automatic Extraction of Textual and Phonemic Complexity for French Cued Speech Magali Norré author Brigitte Bigi author Núria Gala author Ludivine Javourey Drevet author Thomas François author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 Matthew Shardlow editor Thomas François editor Raquel Amaro editor Jorge Baptista editor Rémi Cardon editor Eugénio Ribeiro editor Horacio Saggion editor Regina Stodden editor Amalia Todirascu editor Rodrigo Wilkens editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication norre-etal-2026-automatic 10.63317/2efggr7hkgst https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.5/ 2026-05 61 73 Can LLMs Control Readability? A Multi-Dimensional Evaluation Framework for CEFR-Controlled Arabic Generation Nour Rabih author Chatrine Qwaider author Ted Briscoe author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 Matthew Shardlow editor Thomas François editor Raquel Amaro editor Jorge Baptista editor Rémi Cardon editor Eugénio Ribeiro editor Horacio Saggion editor Regina Stodden editor Amalia Todirascu editor Rodrigo Wilkens editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication rabih-etal-2026-llms 10.63317/48v7mxywgfja https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.6/ 2026-05 74 88 Lexical Conditioning of Model’s Distribution through Uncertainty-gated Soft-Mixing of Probabilities Michele Papucci author Giulia Venturi author Felice Dell’Orletta author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 Matthew Shardlow editor Thomas François editor Raquel Amaro editor Jorge Baptista editor Rémi Cardon editor Eugénio Ribeiro editor Horacio Saggion editor Regina Stodden editor Amalia Todirascu editor Rodrigo Wilkens editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication papucci-etal-2026-lexical 10.63317/5hgiz64xsj6s https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.7/ 2026-05 89 100 A Comparative Study of Multilingual Fine-tuning and Prompting for Automatic Text Readability Classification in Galician Sandra Rodríguez Rey author Marcos Garcia author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 Matthew Shardlow editor Thomas François editor Raquel Amaro editor Jorge Baptista editor Rémi Cardon editor Eugénio Ribeiro editor Horacio Saggion editor Regina Stodden editor Amalia Todirascu editor Rodrigo Wilkens editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication rey-garcia-2026-comparative 10.63317/4tnwhe3r9579 https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.8/ 2026-05 101 120 Plan-Guided Text Simplification with Extended Contexts Pascal Mathas author Jan Bakker author Jaap Kamps author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 Matthew Shardlow editor Thomas François editor Raquel Amaro editor Jorge Baptista editor Rémi Cardon editor Eugénio Ribeiro editor Horacio Saggion editor Regina Stodden editor Amalia Todirascu editor Rodrigo Wilkens editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication mathas-etal-2026-plan 10.63317/2gk3wxp2d525 https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.9/ 2026-05 121 129 LLM-Generated Stories for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities: Promise, Gaps, and Evaluation Framework Pragati Maheshwary author Ananya Ganesh author Shamya Karumbaiah author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 Matthew Shardlow editor Thomas François editor Raquel Amaro editor Jorge Baptista editor Rémi Cardon editor Eugénio Ribeiro editor Horacio Saggion editor Regina Stodden editor Amalia Todirascu editor Rodrigo Wilkens editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication maheshwary-etal-2026-llm 10.63317/3b9f4txwp2n2 https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.10/ 2026-05 130 141 Evaluating Transformer Model Family Representations Through Automated Essay Scoring Akchay Ozten author Rodrigo Wilkens author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 Matthew Shardlow editor Thomas François editor Raquel Amaro editor Jorge Baptista editor Rémi Cardon editor Eugénio Ribeiro editor Horacio Saggion editor Regina Stodden editor Amalia Todirascu editor Rodrigo Wilkens editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication ozten-wilkens-2026-evaluating 10.63317/35ytj3qcrwv4 https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.11/ 2026-05 142 150 Proficiency-Controlled Text Simplification in European Portuguese: A Preliminary Study using Prompting Approaches Eugénio Ribeiro author David Antunes author Nuno Mamede author Jorge Baptista author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 Matthew Shardlow editor Thomas François editor Raquel Amaro editor Jorge Baptista editor Rémi Cardon editor Eugénio Ribeiro editor Horacio Saggion editor Regina Stodden editor Amalia Todirascu editor Rodrigo Wilkens editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication ribeiro-etal-2026-proficiency 10.63317/4sw76nrnosj6 https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.12/ 2026-05 151 163 Automatic Text Simplification for French Medical Documents with LLMs: The Role of Target Audience and Genre Rémi Cardon author A Seza Doğruöz author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 Matthew Shardlow editor Thomas François editor Raquel Amaro editor Jorge Baptista editor Rémi Cardon editor Eugénio Ribeiro editor Horacio Saggion editor Regina Stodden editor Amalia Todirascu editor Rodrigo Wilkens editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication cardon-dogruoz-2026-automatic 10.63317/32b2v7b42kyb https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.13/ 2026-05 164 180 A Learner-Oriented Annotated Resource of French Multiword Expressions for Text Adaptation in Foreign Language Reading Anna Kalinina author Thomas François author Hélène Vassiliadou author Amalia Todirascu author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 Matthew Shardlow editor Thomas François editor Raquel Amaro editor Jorge Baptista editor Rémi Cardon editor Eugénio Ribeiro editor Horacio Saggion editor Regina Stodden editor Amalia Todirascu editor Rodrigo Wilkens editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication kalinina-etal-2026-learner 10.63317/47m6wxhoqpej https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.14/ 2026-05 181 192 A Meta-evaluation of Automatic Metrics for Elaborative Simplification Abdullah Alshatti author Steven Schockaert author Fernando Alva-Manchego author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 Matthew Shardlow editor Thomas François editor Raquel Amaro editor Jorge Baptista editor Rémi Cardon editor Eugénio Ribeiro editor Horacio Saggion editor Regina Stodden editor Amalia Todirascu editor Rodrigo Wilkens editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication alshatti-etal-2026-meta 10.63317/3bhnb2uoif7o https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.15/ 2026-05 193 209 Readability Measures in Automatic Text Simplification: Is Simplification Quality a Coherent Construct? Rémi Cardon author A Seza Doğruöz author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 Matthew Shardlow editor Thomas François editor Raquel Amaro editor Jorge Baptista editor Rémi Cardon editor Eugénio Ribeiro editor Horacio Saggion editor Regina Stodden editor Amalia Todirascu editor Rodrigo Wilkens editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication cardon-dogruoz-2026-readability 10.63317/4gagp6meyztv https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.16/ 2026-05 210 226 Language Proficiency as a Recoverable Dimension in Multilingual LLM Embeddings Rodrigo Wilkens author 2026-05 text Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 Matthew Shardlow editor Thomas François editor Raquel Amaro editor Jorge Baptista editor Rémi Cardon editor Eugénio Ribeiro editor Horacio Saggion editor Regina Stodden editor Amalia Todirascu editor Rodrigo Wilkens editor ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) Palma, Mallorca (Spain) conference publication wilkens-2026-language 10.63317/3zrv8qescsdg https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.17/ 2026-05 227 242