Intelligent Reading Improvement System for Fundamental and Transversal Skills Development

Resultado final

First short report providing an informative overview on the project activities and results related to policy definition.

Annotation schema

Project report on the task, method, requirements, sampling criteria, representativeness and metadata.

Reading skills survey

New survey (questionnaire & results) on the needs of trainers and adult learners with low literacy skills, related to reading skills improvement.

Literature review & report

Report on the literature review and data, able to be disseminated to policy makers.

+Easy and +Clear complexity levels

Framework

Overall skills and gaps survey

Preliminary survey (questionnaire & results) on the relation between skills needs and gaps and reading skills, able to be disseminated to policy makers.

Annotation manual

| Intuitive guidelines for non-specialist annotation.

Baselines for complexity lexicons definition

Methods and features for defining lexical complexity and sets of basic vocabularies.

Data set 1: corpora by level of complexity for FR, PT and SP

Collection of written texts of several genres and levels of complexity in txt/xml format.

Basic lexicons per complexity levels

Vocabulary for the three languages FR, PT and SP.

Project website

iRead4Skills project website and associated contents.

Publicaciones

Hurdles in Parsing Multi-word Adverbs: Examples from Portuguese

Autores: Izabela Müller, Nuno Mamede and Jorge Baptista
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese, 2024
Editor: ACL

The Role of Adverbs in Language Variety Identification: The Case of Portuguese Multi-Word Adverbs

Autores: Izabela Müller, Nuno Mamede, Jorge Baptista
Publicado en: Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties, and Dialects (VarDial 2024), 2024
Editor: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2024.VARDIAL-1.8

A European Portuguese corpus annotated for verbal idioms

Autores: David Antunes, Jorge Baptista, Nuno J. Mamede
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2025), 2025
Editor: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2025.MWE-1.7

Leveraging NLP and Machine Learning for English (L1) Writing Assessment in Developmental Education

Autores: Miguel Da Corte, Jorge Baptista
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, 2024
Editor: SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications
DOI: 10.5220/0012740500003693

Lexicalized meaning representation (LMR)

Autores: Jorge Baptista, Sónia Reis, João Dias & Pedro Santos
Publicado en: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations @ LREC-COLING 2024, 2024
Editor: ELRA/ICCL/ACL

Reducing the Achievement and Equity Gap in Developmental Education Placement

Autores: Miguel da Corte and Jorge Baptista
Publicado en: The 1st International Conference on the Global Perspectives on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning and Translation (GLOTECH)
Editor: University of Alicante

Paying attention to the words: explaining readability prediction for French as a foreign language

Autores: Rodrigo Wilkens, Patrick Watrin, Thomas François
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) @ LREC-COLING 2024, 2024
Editor: ELRA and ICCL

Semantic Representation of Adverbs in the Lexicalized Meaning Representation (LMR) Framework

Autores: Izabela Müller, Jorge Baptista and Sónia Reis
Publicado en: 14th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Edición 135, 2025
Editor: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
DOI: 10.4230/OASICS.SLATE.2025.9

Lexicon-Grammar of Brazilian Portuguese Predicative Adjectives

Autores: Ryan Saldanha Martinez, Jorge Baptista, and Oto A. Vale
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese, 2026
Editor: ACL

Enhancing Writing Proficiency Classification in Developmental Education: The Quest for Accuracy

Autores: Miguel Da Corte, Jorge Baptista
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
Editor: ELRA and ICCL

OASIcs, Volume 135, SLATE 2025, Complete Volume

Autores: Baptista, Jorge; Barateiro, José
Publicado en: 2025
Editor: Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
DOI: 10.4230/OASICS.SLATE.2025

Lexicon-Grammar Web

Autores: Jorge Baptista, David Antunes, Nuno Mamede, and Eugénio Ribeiro
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese, 2026
Editor: ACL

Toward Consistency in Writing Proficiency Assessment: Mitigating Classification Variability in Developmental Education

Autores: Miguel Da Corte, Jorge Baptista
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, 2025
Editor: SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications
DOI: 10.5220/0013353900003932

Exploring hybrid approaches to readability: experiments on the complementarity between linguistic features and transformers

Autores: Rodrigo Wilkens, Alice Pintard, Thomas François
Publicado en: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024, 2024
Editor: ACL

From Complexity Scores to Readable Texts: iRead4Skills for Adult Literacy in Portuguese

Autores: Jorge Baptista, Eugénio Ribeiro, Nuno Mamede, David Antunes, & Raquel Amaro
Publicado en: roceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese, 2026
Editor: ACL

Refining English Writing Proficiency Assessment and Placement in Developmental Education Using NLP Tools and Machine Learning

Autores: Miguel Da Corte, Jorge Baptista
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, 2025
Editor: SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications
DOI: 10.5220/0013351500003932

iRead4Skills @ IberSPEECH 2024: Project presentation and developments for the Portuguese language

Autores: Jorge Baptista, Eugénio Ribeiro, Nuno Mamede
Publicado en: IberSPEECH 2024, 2024
Editor: ISCA
DOI: 10.21437/IBERSPEECH.2024-62

Modélisation de la lisibilité en français pour les personnes en situation d’illettrisme

Autores: Wafa Aissa, Thibault Bañeras-Roux, Elodie Vanzeveren, Lingyun Gao, Rodrigo Wilkens, Thomas François
Publicado en: Actes des 32ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN), volume 1 : articles scientifiques originaux, 2025
Editor: ATALA & ARIA

Charting the Linguistic Landscape of Developing Writers: An Annotation Scheme for Enhancing Native Language Proficiency

Autores: Miguel Da Corte, Jorge Baptista
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
Editor: ELRA and ICCL

Portho: A Corpus-Based Resource of Orthographic Neighbors in European Portuguese.

Autores: Eugénio Ribeiro, Nuno Mamede, David Antunes & Jorge Baptista
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese, 2026
Editor: ACL

Assessing french readability for adults with low literacy: A global and local perspective

Autores: Wafa Aissa, Thibault Bañeras-Roux, Elodie Vanzeveren, Lingyun Gao, Rodrigo Wilkens, Thomas François
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025
Editor: ACL

The iRead4Skills Intelligent Complexity Analyzer

Autores: Wafa Aissa, Raquel Amaro, David Antunes, Thibault Bañeras-Roux, Jorge Baptista, Alejandro Catala, Luís Correia, Thomas François, Marcos Garcia, Mario Izquierdo-Álvarez, Nuno Mamede, Vasco Martins, Miguel Neves, Eugénio Ribeiro, Sandra Rodriguez Rey, Elodie Vanzeveren
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, 2025
Editor: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2025.EMNLP-DEMOS.6

Automatic Text Readability Assessment in European Portuguese

Autores: Ribeiro, E., Mamede, N., & Baptista, J.
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese, Edición 16, 2024
Editor: PROPOR 2024

Towards a Syntactic Lexicon of Brazilian Portuguese Adjectives

Autores: Ryan Martinez, Jorge Baptista & Oto A. Vale
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (, 2024
Editor: ACL

Exploration d’approches hybrides pour la lisibilité : expériences sur la complémentarité entre les traits linguistiques et les transformers

Autores: Rodrigo Wilkens, Patrick Watrin, Rémi Cardon, Alice Pintard, Isabelle Gribomont, Thomas François
Publicado en: Actes de la 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 2 : traductions d'articles publiès, 2024
Editor: ATALA and AFPC

Exploring the Automated Scoring of Narrative Essays in Brazilian Portuguese using Transformer Models

Autores: Eugénio Ribeiro, Nuno Mamede, Jorge Baptista
Editor: Association for Computational Lingustics

Semantic Representation of Relative Clauses in Lexicalized Abstract Meaning Representation

Autores: Jorge Baptista & Sónia Reis
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese, 2026
Editor: ACL

Text Readability Assessment in European Portuguese: A Comparison of Classification and Regression Approaches

Autores: Ribeiro, E., Mamede, N., & Baptista, J.
Publicado en: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese, Edición 16, 2024
Editor: PROPOR 2024

Léxico mejorado del español para los niveles del MCER A1, A2 y B1, y nociones metalingüísticas de base

Autores: Xavier Blanco Escoda
Publicado en: Onomázein Revista de lingüística filología y traducción, 2024, ISSN 0718-5758
Editor: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
DOI: 10.7764/ONOMAZEIN.NE14.08

Avaliação Automática do Nível de Complexidade de Textos em Português Europeu

Autores: Eugénio Ribeiro, Nuno Mamede, Jorge Baptista
Publicado en: Linguamática, Edición 16, 2025, ISSN 1647-0818
Editor: University of Minho
DOI: 10.21814/LM.16.2.449

Intelligent Support for Low Literacy Adults: The European Portuguese iRead4Skills Corpus

Autores: Maria Leonor Reis, Sílvia Barbosa, Michell Moutinho, Ricardo Monteiro, Susana Correia, Raquel Amaro
Publicado en: International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), Edición 19, 2024, ISSN 1863-0383
Editor: International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)
DOI: 10.3991/IJET.V19I08.52023

Aprendizado por Transferência para Correção Automática de Redação

Autores: Igor Cataneo Silveira, Eugénio Ribeiro, Nuno Mamede, Jorge Baptista
Publicado en: Linguamática, Edición 17, 2026, ISSN 1647-0818
Editor: University of Minho
DOI: 10.21814/LM.17.2.493

Framework of Textual Complexity for Low-Literacy Adults: Levels and Descriptors within the iRead4skill Project

Autores: Raquel Amaro, Susana Correia, Ricardo Monteiro, Alice Pintard, Michell Moutinho, Sílvia Barbosa
Publicado en: Langues & Parole, Edición 10, 2025, ISSN 2684-6691
Editor: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
DOI: 10.5565/REV/LANGUESPAROLE.154

Dictionnaires électroniques et traduction automatique espagnol-français

Autores: Xavier Blanco
Publicado en: Langages, Edición 35, 2023, ISSN 0458-726X
Editor: PERSEE Program
DOI: 10.3406/LGGE.2001.890

Anamorfosis textuales en didáctica de la literatura

Autores: Xavier Blanco Escoda
Publicado en: Aprendo con NooJ, 2026, ISSN 2718-8574
Editor: Universidad Nacional de Rosario
DOI: 10.35305/AN.VI6.43

Níveis e descritores de complexidade textual para adultos de baixa literacia: um referencial do projeto iRead4Skills

Autores: Ricardo Monteiro, Susana Correia, Raquel Amaro, Michell Moutinho, Sílvia Barbosa, Maria Leonor Reis
Publicado en: Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, 2025, ISSN 2183-9077
Editor: Associacao Portuguesa de Linguistica
DOI: 10.26334/2183-9077/RAPLN13ANO2025A9

Clasificación automática de textos por niveis de lecturabilidade: recursos e modelos para o galego

Autores: Sandra Rodríguez Rey, Marcos Garcia
Publicado en: Linguamática, Edición 17, 2026, ISSN 1647-0818
Editor: University of Minho
DOI: 10.21814/LM.17.2.488

L’effet facilitateur de la transparence interlinguistique sur l’acquisition lexicale du français et de l’espagnol chez les apprenants sinophones

Autores: Keran Mu
Publicado en: Langues & Parole, ISSN 2466-7757
Editor: Revistes Digitals de l'Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
DOI: 10.5565/REV/LANGUESPAROLE.150

Exploring Few-Shot Approaches to Automatic Text Complexity Assessment in European Portuguese

Autores: Eugénio Ribeiro, David Antunes, Nuno Mamede, Jorge Baptista
Publicado en: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, Edición 31, 2025, ISSN 1678-4804
Editor: Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao - SB
DOI: 10.5753/JBCS.2025.5820

Exploring Linguistic Features in a New Readability Corpus for Spanish

Autores: Sandra Rodríguez Rey, André Bernárdez Braña, Marcos Garcia
Publicado en: Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural, Edición 74, 2025, ISSN 1135-5948
Editor: Sociedad Espanola para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural
DOI: 10.26342/2025-74-15

Presentation

Autores: Raquel Amaro, Jorge Baptista, Thomas François, Marcos García, Rodrigo Wilkens
Publicado en: Langues & Parole, Edición 10, 2025, ISSN 2684-6691
Editor: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
DOI: 10.5565/REV/LANGUESPAROLE.156

A Multi-Stage Heuristic Filtering Pipeline for Refining a Spanish Legal Corpus for Natural Language Processing

Autores: Nikolai Tiurin, Xavier Blanco Escoda
Publicado en: Langues & Parole, Edición 10, 2025, ISSN 2684-6691
Editor: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
DOI: 10.5565/REV/LANGUESPAROLE.153

Processamento automático de expressões idiomáticas do português europeu

Autores: David Antunes, Jorge Baptista, Nuno Mamede
Publicado en: Linguamática, Edición 17, 2025, ISSN 1647-0818
Editor: University of Minho
DOI: 10.21814/LM.17.1.464

Selección del léxico español y francés de niveles iniciales (A1–B1) para aprendientes sinohablantes

Autores: Keran Mu
Editor: UAB

Vocabulário Fundamental da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa: seleção lexical, alinhamento de sentidos e codificação

Autores: Maria Leonor Reis
Editor: NOVA FCSH

Textual complexity for low literacy adults: analysis of complexity levels and their characteristics

Autores: Ricardo Monteiro
Editor: NOVA FCSH

Analyse contrastive des pragmatèmes et application lexicographique bilingue

Autores: Elina Sidorovic
Editor: UAB & Vilnius University

Adaptive Text Simplification: Using Machine Learning Models to Adapt the Level of Simplification Based on Feedback from Users

Autores: Nikolai Tiurin
Editor: UAB

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