Tools and Resources for REAding DIfficulties (READI)

LREC-COLING 2024 Workshop | May, 20th 2024 | Torino, Italy

Programme


Time Programme point Chair
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome Amalia Todirascu
09:10 - 10:00 Invited speaker
Giulia Venturi
Putting the right book into the hands of the right reader in the era of Large Language Models
Amalia Todirascu
10:00 - 10:30 Oral presentation
Liam Cripwell, Joël Legrand and Claire Gardent
Evaluating Document Simplification: On the Importance of Separately Assessing Simplicity and Meaning Preservation
Amalia Todirascu
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Poster Session Rodrigo Wilkens
Helgi Björn Hjartarson and Steinunn Rut Fririksdóttir
Malmon: A Crowd-Sourcing Platform for Simple Language
Andreas Säuberli and Simon Clematide
Automatic Generation and Evaluation of Reading Comprehension Test Items with Large Language Models
Matthew Shardlow, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Riza Batista-Navarro, Ste- fan Bott, Saul Calderon Ramirez, Rémi Cardon, Thomas François, Akio Hayakawa, Andrea Horbach, Anna Huelsing, Yusuke Ide, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Adam Nohejl, Kai North, Laura Occhipinti, Nelson Peréz Rojas, Md Nishat Raihan, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Martin Solis Salazar, Marcos Zampieri and Horacio Saggion
An Extensible Massively Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline Dataset using the MultiLS Framework
Hikaru Yamanaka and Takenobu Tokunaga
SIERA: An Evaluation Metric for Text Simplification using the Ranking Model and Data Augmentation by Edit Operations
Mark Athugodage, Olga Mitrofanove and Vadim Gudkov
Transfer Learning for Russian Legal Text Simplification
Andreea Maria Deleanu, Constantin Orasan and Sabine Braun
Accessible Communication: a systematic review and comparative analysis of official English Easy-to-Understand (E2U) language guidelines
12:00 - 12:30 Margot Madina, Itziar Gonzalez-Dios and Melanie Siegel
LanguageTool as a CAT tool for Easy-to-Read in Spanish
Rémi Cardon
12:30 - 13:00 Rodrigo Wilkens, Watrin Patrick and Thomas François
Paying attention to the words: explaining readability prediction for French as a foreign language
Rémi Cardon