Registration 8 a.m.–9 a.m.
9 a.m.–9.10 a.m.
Opening notes
9.10 a.m.–10.10 a.m.
Christiane Maaß
10.10 a.m.–10.30 a.m.
Leveraging Large Language Models for Joint Linguistic and Technical Accessibility Improvement: A Case Study on University Webpages
Pierrette Bouillon, Johanna Gerlach and Raphael Rubino
Break 10.30 a.m.–11 a.m.
11 a.m.–12.30 p.m.
How Artificial Intelligence can help in the Easy-to-Read Adaptation of Numerical Expressions in Spanish
Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa, Alejandro Muñoz-Navarro and Isam Diab
Large Language Models Applied to Controlled Natural Languages in Communicating Diabetes Therapies
Federica Vezzani, Sara Vecchiato and Elena Frattolin
Simplifying Lithuanian text into Easy-to-Read language using large language models
Simona Kuoraitė and Valentas Gružauskas
ChatGPT and Mistral as a tool for intralingual translation into Easy French
Julia Degenhardt
Simplifying healthcare communication: Evaluating AI-driven plain language editing of informed consent forms
Vicent Briva-Iglesias and Isabel Peñuelas Gil
Lunch 12.30 p.m.–1.30 p.m.
1.30 p.m.–3 p.m.
Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Dimitrios Kapnas, & Katharina Oster
Break 3 p.m.–3.30 p.m.
3.30 p.m.–4.45 p.m.
Translating Easy Language administrative texts: a quantitative analysis of DeepL’s performance from German into Italian using a bilingual corpus
Christiane Maaß and Chiara Fioravanti
Do professionally adapted texts follow existing Easy-to-Understand (E2U) language guidelines? A quantitative analysis of two professionally adapted corpora
Andreea Deleanu, Constantin Orasan, Shenbin Qian, Anastasiia Bezobrazova and Sabine Braun
Quantifying word complexity for "Leichte Sprache": A computational metric and its psycholinguistic validation
Umesh Patil, Jesus Calvillo, Sol Lago and Anne-Kathrin Schumann
Democracy Made Easy: Simplifying Complex Topics to Enable Democratic Participation
Nouran Khallaf, Stefan Bott, Carlo Eugeni, John O'Flaherty, Serge Sharoff and Horacio Saggion
4.45 p.m.–5 p.m.
Wrapping up:
Identifying key areas of future research
Establishing a permanent research network in this field