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# Matthew Shardlow — all works

26 works · [← Matthew Shardlow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-shardlow/)

1. **[A Comparison of Techniques to Automatically Identify Complex Words.](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shardlow-2013-comparison-techniques-automatically-identify-complex/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/annual-meeting-of-the-association-for-computational-linguistics-proceedings-of/)**Matthew Shardlow*2013 · 156 citations*
2. **[SemEval-2021 Task 1: Lexical Complexity Prediction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shardlow-2021-semeval-2021-task-1-lexical/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Matthew Shardlow, Richard Evans, Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, et al.*2021 · 155 citations*
3. **[Out in the Open: Finding and Categorising Errors in the Lexical Simplification Pipeline ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L14-1403/) Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14) · no summary yet**Shardlow, Matthew*2014 · 88 citations*
4. **[Findings of the TSAR-2022 Shared Task on Multilingual Lexical Simplification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.tsar-1.31/) Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022) · no summary yet**Horacio Saggion et al.*2022 · 77 citations*
5. **[BLESS: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Sentence Simplification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.821/) Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Tannon Kew et al.*2023 · 74 citations*
6. **[Lexical Simplification Benchmarks for English, Portuguese, and Spanish ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05301) arXiv:2209.05301 · no summary yet**Sanja Stajner et al.*2022 · 60 citations*
7. **[Neural Text Simplification of Clinical Letters with a Domain Specific Phrase Table ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P19-1037/) Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Matthew Shardlow, Raheel Nawaz*2019 · 50 citations*
8. **[Predicting Lexical Complexity in English Texts: The Complex 2.0 Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shardlow-2021-predicting-lexical-complexity-english-texts/) [Language Resources and Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/language-resources-and-evaluation/)**Matthew Shardlow, Richard Evans, Marcos Zampieri*2021 · 49 citations*
9. **[The BEA 2024 Shared Task on the Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.bea-1.51/) Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024) · no summary yet**Matthew Shardlow et al.*2024 · 42 citations*
10. **[Deep Learning Approaches to Lexical Simplification: A Survey ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12000) arXiv:2305.12000 · no summary yet**Kai North et al.*2023 · 40 citations*
11. **[An Extensible Massively Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline Dataset using the MultiLS Framework ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.readi-1.4/) Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) @ LREC-COLING 2024 · no summary yet**Matthew Shardlow et al.*2024 · 20 citations*
12. **[CombiNMT: An Exploration into Neural Text Simplification Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.686/) Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yet**Michael Cooper, Matthew Shardlow*2020 · 18 citations*
13. **[Investigating Text Simplification Evaluation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-acl.77/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021 · no summary yet**Laura Vásquez-Rodríguez et al.*2021 · 15 citations*
14. **[Multi-Word Lexical Simplification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.123/) Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Piotr Przybyła, Matthew Shardlow*2020 · 13 citations*
15. **[UoM&MMU at TSAR-2022 Shared Task: Prompt Learning for Lexical Simplification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.tsar-1.23/) Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022) · no summary yet**Laura Vásquez-Rodríguez et al.*2022 · 12 citations*
16. **[Simple TICO-19: A Dataset for Joint Translation and Simplification of COVID-19 Texts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.331/) Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yet**Matthew Shardlow, Fernando Alva-Manchego*2022 · 11 citations*
17. **[MultiLS: A Multi-task Lexical Simplification Framework ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14972) arXiv:2402.14972 · no summary yet**Kai North et al.*2024 · 10 citations*
18. **[MultiLS: An End-to-End Lexical Simplification Framework ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.tsar-1.1/) Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2024) · no summary yet**Kai North et al.*2024 · 7 citations*
19. **[ALEXSIS+: Improving Substitute Generation and Selection for Lexical Simplification with Information Retrieval ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.33/) Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023) · no summary yet**Kai North et al.*2023 · 7 citations*
20. **[Large Language Models for Biomedical Text Simplification: Promising But Not There Yet ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03871) arXiv:2408.03871 · no summary yet**Zihao Li et al.*2024 · 6 citations*
21. **[An Investigation into the Effect of Control Tokens on Text Simplification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.tsar-1.14/) Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022) · no summary yet**Zihao Li, Matthew Shardlow, Saeed Hassan*2022 · 5 citations*
22. **[Simple is not Enough: Document-level Text Simplification using Readability and Coherence ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18655) arXiv:2412.18655 · no summary yet**Laura Vasquez-Rodriguez et al.*2024 · 4 citations*
23. **[Efficient On-Device Text Simplification for Firefox with Synthetic Data Fine-Tuning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.tsar-1.7/) Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2025) · no summary yet**Pablo Romero, Zihao Li, Matthew Shardlow*2025 · 1 citation*
24. **[Benchmarking Check-Worthiness Models on LLM Generated Claims ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.indor-1.4/) Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Information Disorder (InDor) @ LREC 2026 · no summary yet**Charlie George Roadhouse, Matthew Shardlow, Ashley Williams*2026*
25. **[GPT-Based Lexical Simplification for Multi-Word Expressions Using Prompt Engineering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.ranlp-1.64/) Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing - Natural Language Processing in the Generative AI Era · no summary yet**Sardar Khan Khayamkhani, Matthew Shardlow*2025*
26. **[Text Simplification with Sentence Embeddings ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24365) arXiv:2510.24365 · no summary yet**Matthew Shardlow*2025*