The workshop addresses all topics ranging from Legibility to Text Simplification, including issues, resources, and manual and automatic methods related to measuring and improving text comprehensibility.
This is an interdisciplinary event which provides the opportunity for different specialists to discuss problems and existing and possible solutions related to these topics. The event invites scientific researchers, representatives of IT companies, publishers, public institutions (such as the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and public schools), and practitioners (such as authors of children's books, school materials, and teachers).
The event is organised by the internally funded by GATE Institute project B-CLEAR, whose aim is to create the first readability index for the Bulgarian language and determine the reading difficulties of Bulgarian school students of different ages and classes. The workshop will feature two invited speakers and a panel of representatives from different fields, who will present cutting-edge insights and discuss the existing international and Bulgarian issues and possible solutions to them.
The official language of the workshop is English. The articles and presentations should be written in English. Официалният език на срещата е английски, статиите и презентациите трябва да бъдат написани на английски. Ако има желаещи да участват, които не владеят английски език достатъчно добре, моля, обърнете се към организаторите за съдействие:
We invite short essays from practitioners (outside of any scientific field) and scientific articles, presenting completed or ongoing work with methods coming from all related fields, such as Linguistics, Translation and Translation Technologies, Psycholinguistics, Education, Computational Social Science, and Natural Language Processing. All submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the Programming Committee, on the basis of these reviews, a decision will be made on whether the article will be accepted for presentation at the workshop and publication. The accepted submissions will be uploaded to ACL Anthology.
The articles should discuss any issues at least partially linked to analysing, evaluating and improving text and speech comprehensibility in any language. This is an indicative, and not exhaustive, list of topics:
Fonts legibility
Analysing and evaluating the readability of texts
Readability indices
Psycholinguistic studies of texts and speech comprehensibility
Eye-tracking and finger-tracking tools approaches to text readability and accessibility
Linguistic resources and automatic tools for readability, simplification, and comprehensibility
Assistive reading tools
Comprehensibility in translation and interpreting, cross-linguistic studies
Manual rules and automatic text simplification
Lexical, syntactic, discourse, and document-level texts' complexity and simplification
Comprehensibility of texts and conversations in the medical, legal, disaster management, and other domains
Measuring school children’s reading skills and related education
Public institutions' procedures regarding the comprehensibility of public documents
Multimodal adaptation for different audiences
Generation of accessible and simplified texts
Evaluation of the comprehensibility of content generated by Language Models (LLMs), and LLMs' use in related fields.
In summary, the following types of submissions are accepted for review:
1) Scientific articles by acting scientific researchers, following the same requirements as the CLIB conference:
long articles, presenting completed work (maximum 8 pages without Ethics Statement, Limitations, Acknowledgements, References and Appendices + 1 additional content page after reviews)
short articles, presenting ongoing work or observations about general tendencies in a related field (maximum 4 without Ethics Statement, Limitations, Acknowledgements, References and Appendices + 1 extra content page after the reviews)
2) Scientific articles, written by University or PhD students. The article should follow CLIB conference formatting requirements and should clearly state to be written by student(s) and contain only the work of students, and clearly specify the general context of the project if the research is part of a larger research project. These submissions are also of two types, similar to those of experienced researchers:
long articles, presenting completed work (maximum 8 pages without Ethics Statement, Limitations, Acknowledgements, References and Appendices + 1 additional content page after reviews)
short articles, presenting ongoing work or observations about general tendencies in a related field (maximum 4 without Ethics Statement, Limitations, Acknowledgements, References and Appendices + 1 extra content page after the reviews)
3) Articles from the industry (e.g, publishing houses, translation agencies and IT companies), practitioners (e.g. teachers, translators), and representatives of public institutions (such as Ministries of Education), of a maximum of 2 pages, presenting procedures and issues in their institutions, or arising in their jobs. These articles can follow a free form, but should contain: a title, the names of the author(s), the author(s) affiliations, present the general context, describe problems (if such are described), their solutions (if such exist), or if solutions do not exist - what solutions the author(s) desire to find; finally, the article should contain conclusions, and any references to books, websites, etc. (should such exist). These submissions should also be accompanied by a second file, which describes in short (maximum of 150 words) the company/institution of the author(s).
The formatting requirements with templates will be available on the Article Templates page on May 11th, 2026.