3 papers
cs.CL2026
ComplexityMT: Benchmarking the Interaction Between Text Complexity and Machine Translation
Joseph Marvin Imperial, Junhong Liang, Belal Shoer +9
When a text is translated, does the translation retain the complexity of the original? We introduce ComplexityMT, a new challenge for assessing how text complexity and machine tran…
cs.CL2025
UniversalCEFR: Enabling Open Multilingual Research on Language Proficiency Assessment
Joseph Marvin Imperial, Abdullah Barayan, Regina Stodden +16
We introduce UniversalCEFR, a large-scale multilingual and multidimensional dataset of texts annotated with CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference) levels in 13 languages. To…
cs.CL2024
Analysing Zero-Shot Readability-Controlled Sentence Simplification
Abdullah Barayan, Jose Camacho-Collados, Fernando Alva-Manchego
Readability-controlled text simplification (RCTS) rewrites texts to lower readability levels while preserving their meaning. RCTS models often depend on parallel corpora with reada…