37.1072, Confs: Workshop on German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment (Germany)

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Date: 16-Mar-2026
From: Yingqiang Gao [yingqiang.gao at cl.uzh.ch]
Subject: Workshop on German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment


Workshop on German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment
Short Title: KlarText 2026

Date: 14-Sep-2026 - 17-Sep-2026
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Contact: Yingqiang Gao
Contact Email: yingqiang.gao at cl.uzh.ch
Meeting URL: https://klar-text.github.io/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics

KlarText 2026 - Workshop on German Text Simplification & Readability
Assessment (co-located with KONVENS 2026, 14-17 September 2026 in
Hamburg)
The KlarText Workshop aims to bring together researchers,
practitioners, and industry experts to discuss state-of-the-art
methods, share resources, and identify future research directions in
German text simplification and readability assessment. We especially
want to shed awareness for the different simplification goals and
simplified language forms and attract researchers who face the
challenges of German text simplification.
Moreover, evaluating text simplification and readability poses
challenges, such as the subjective nature of readability, difficulties
in assessing the cognitive load across different audiences, and the
need for large, diverse datasets that reflect the complexity of
real-world language use. The KlarText Workshop provides a dedicated
venue for interdisciplinary collaboration, bridging NLP, computational
linguistics, and cognitive science while also addressing these
challenges and exploring regulatory frameworks for public
communication. Additionally, we invite cross-linguistic perspectives
that examine how insights from German or other languages can inform
multilingual and cross-lingual simplification efforts, especially for
Easy Language variants in other languages, such as lectura fácil in
Spanish, facile à lire et à comprendre (FALC) in French, or Vieglā
valoda in Latvian.
We invite submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not
limited to the following:
 - German Text Simplification:
 - Readability Assessment
 - Resources & Approaches for Easy Language
 - Evaluation & Human-Centered Assessment
 - Applications & Real-World Impact
 - Cross-Linguistic & Multilingual Perspectives
 - Corpus analysis and non-computational approaches
 - Personalized simplification solutions
 - Multimodal solutions for accessible communication
Important Dates:
 - 2. July 2026 23:59 AoE - Direct paper submission deadline
 - 26. July 2026 23:59 AoE - Submission deadline for pre-reviewed
papers (ARR March/May 2026 cycle or KONVENS submissions)
 - 04. August 2026 - Notification of acceptance
 - 15. August 2025 - Deadline for camera-ready paper
Organizers:
 - Miriam Anschütz (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
 - Yingqiang Gao (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
 - Thorben Schomacker (HAW Hamburg & University of Hamburg, Germany)
 - Regina Stodden (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
For more information, please visit the workshop page:
https://klar-text.github.io/



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