Automatic text simplification is a research field in computational linguistics that studies
methods and techniques to simplify textual content. Text simplification methods should …

Although citizens agree on the importance of objective scientific information, yet they tend to
avoid scientific literature due to access restrictions, its complex language or their lack of prior …

The purpose of automatic text simplification is to adapt the content of documents in order to
make them easier to understand by a given population or to improve the performance of …

The Web and social media have become the main source of information for citizens, with the
risk that users rely on shallow information in sources prioritizing commercial or political …

In this paper we present FLELex, the first graded lexicon for French as a foreign language
(FFL) that reports word frequencies by difficulty level (according to the CEFR scale). It has …

In this paper we present a readability assessment system for Basque, ErreXail, which is
going to be the preprocessing module of a Text Simplification system. To that end we …

In this article, we present ReSyf, a lexical resource of monolingual synonyms ranked
according to their difficulty to be read and understood by native learners of French. The …

Readability is an almost century-old field that aims to match readers with texts based on
reproducible tools. It has a long history, but it is remarkable that the methodology used to …

In this paper we present work-in-progress where we investigate the usefulness of previously
created word lists to the task of single-word lexical complexity analysis and prediction of the …

This paper describes a CEFR-based classifier of single-word and multi-word lexical
complexity in context from a second language learner perspective in English and in French …