--- title: "Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification" description: "Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 — accepted papers: 3 papers in the Elamur Research…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/readi/2026/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/readi/2026/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [Joint Workshop on Readability and Text…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/readi/) / 2026 # Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 — accepted papers Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC, held in Palma, Mallorca (Spain), May 2026 (publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)). The ACL Anthology lists 17 papers of it; our library holds 3 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. 📍 Palma, Mallorca (Spain) · 🗓 May 2026 [**17** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**3** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/readi/2026/#works) · [**1** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/readi/2026/#works) ## All accepted papers (17) The most cited first; 3 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Comparative Study of Multilingual Fine-tuning and Prompting for Automatic Text Readability Classification in Galician ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.8/)**Sandra Rodríguez Rey, Marcos Garcia 2. **[A Learner-Oriented Annotated Resource of French Multiword Expressions for Text Adaptation in Foreign Language Reading ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.14/)**Anna Kalinina, Thomas François, Hélène Vassiliadou et al. 3. **[A Meta-evaluation of Automatic Metrics for Elaborative Simplification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.15/)**Abdullah Alshatti, Steven Schockaert, Fernando Alva-Manchego 4. **[Automatic Extraction of Textual and Phonemic Complexity for French Cued Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/norre-2026-automatic-extraction-textual-phonemic-complexity/)**Magali Norré, Brigitte Bigi, Núria Gala et al.*our summary* 5. **[Automatic Text Simplification for French Medical Documents with LLMs: The Role of Target Audience and Genre ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.13/)**Rémi Cardon, A. Seza Doğruöz 6. **[Book Complexity Level Assignment in French and Portuguese ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.2/)**Jorge Baptista, David Antunes, Wafa Aissa et al. 7. **[Can LLMs Control Readability? A Multi-Dimensional Evaluation Framework for CEFR-Controlled Arabic Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.6/)**Nour Rabih, Chatrine Qwaider, Ted Briscoe 8. **[Evaluating Transformer Model Family Representations Through Automated Essay Scoring ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.11/)**Akchay Ozten, Rodrigo Wilkens 9. **[LLM-Generated Stories for Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities: Promise, Gaps, and Evaluation Framework ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.10/)**Pragati Maheshwary, Ananya Ganesh, Shamya Karumbaiah 10. **[Language Proficiency as a Recoverable Dimension in Multilingual LLM Embeddings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.17/)**Rodrigo Wilkens 11. **[Lexical Conditioning of Model's Distribution through Uncertainty-gated Soft-Mixing of Probabilities ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.7/)**Michele Papucci, Giulia Venturi, Felice Dell'Orletta 12. **[PLABA-EVAL: A Multi-Dimensional, In-Context Sentence Readability Dataset for Medical Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.4/)**Kexin Bian, Su-Youn Yoon, Mamoru Komachi 13. **[Plan-Guided Text Simplification with Extended Contexts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mathas-2026-plan-guided-text-simplification-extended/)**Pascal Mathas, Jan Bakker, Jaap Kamps*our summary* 14. **[Proficiency-Controlled Text Simplification in European Portuguese: A Preliminary Study using Prompting Approaches](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ribeiro-2026-proficiency-controlled-text-simplification-european/)**Eugénio Ribeiro, David Antunes, Nuno Mamede et al.*our summary* 15. **[Readability Measures in Automatic Text Simplification: Is Simplification Quality a Coherent Construct? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.16/)**Rémi Cardon, A. Seza Doğruöz 16. **[Revisiting German Complex Word Identification: Contextualized LLMs and Feature Injection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.1/)**Thorben Schomacker, Seid Muhie Yimam, Chris Biemann et al. 17. **[Taming CATS: Controllable Automatic Text Simplification through Instruction Fine-Tuning with Control Tokens ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.readi-1.3/)**Hanna Hubarava, Yingqiang Gao ## Papers with our summary in our library (3) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[Plan-Guided Text Simplification with Extended Contexts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mathas-2026-plan-guided-text-simplification-extended/) [Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/readi/)**Pascal Mathas, Jan Bakker, Jaap Kamps*2026 · 1 citation* 2. **[Automatic Extraction of Textual and Phonemic Complexity for French Cued Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/norre-2026-automatic-extraction-textual-phonemic-complexity/) [Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/readi/)**Magali Norré, Brigitte Bigi, Núria Gala, et al.*2026* 3. **[Proficiency-Controlled Text Simplification in European Portuguese: A Preliminary Study using Prompting Approaches](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ribeiro-2026-proficiency-controlled-text-simplification-european/) [Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/readi/)**Eugénio Ribeiro, David Antunes, Nuno Mamede, et al.*2026* ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [French (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/french/) ## Fields [Arts and Humanities (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) ## Top authors Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works. [🧑‍🔬**Jaap Kamps**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jaap-kamps/) · [🧑‍🔬**Jan Bakker**1 work here · 1 citation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-bakker/) · [🧑‍🔬**Eugenio Ribeiro**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eugenio-ribeiro/) · [🧑‍🔬**Thomas François**1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-francois/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🎓**Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa** Lisbon · Portugal 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/iscte-instituto-universitario-de-lisboa/) · [🔬**Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento** Lisbon · Portugal 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/instituto-de-engenharia-de-sistemas-e-computadores-investigacao-e/) · [🔬**Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique** Paris · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique/) · [🎓**Aix-Marseille Université** Marseille · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/aix-marseille-universite/) · [🔬**Laboratoire Parole et Langage** Aix-en-Provence · France 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-parole-et-langage/) · [🎓**University of Amsterdam** Amsterdam · Netherlands 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-amsterdam/) · [🎓**UCLouvain** Louvain-la-Neuve · Belgium 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/uclouvain/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [↑ back to Joint Workshop on Readability and Text Simplification (READIxTSAR) @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/readi/)