Innovative and Inclusive Democratic Spaces for Deliberation and Participation

Project Information

iDEM

Grant agreement ID: 101132431

DOI

10.3030/101132431

EC signature date 6 November 2023

Start date 1 January 2024

End date 31 December 2026

Funded under

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Total cost

€ 2 766 946,83

EU contribution

€ 2 766 946,83

Coordinated by

UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA
Spain

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Deliverables

Other (4)

iDEM Integrated Platform, API Specification and Design

The software packages andlibraries, resources, andthe iDEM IntegratedPlatform, API Specificationand Design.

Prototype iDEM Integrated Platform and API
Ethics Training and Support Materials (initial)

Description of training activities and support materials (initial).

Ethical Protocols v1

Description of ethical protocols (first).

Documents, reports (10)

Annual reports on communication and dissemination activities 1st year

Report on first year communication and dissemination activities.

Report on engagements of hard to reach groups and vulnerable populations

Report on engagements of hard to reach groups and vulnerable populations in participatory and deliberative processes.

Guideline for participatory processes

Guideline for participatory processes.

iDEM Communication and Dissemination Plan

iDEM Communication and Dissemination Plan.

Project handbook
Methodology conduct the trustworthiness and awareness dynamics

First report on method and results of racing awareness activities.

Quality Review Plans

Method to ensure quality of the work in the consortium and its deliverables.

Plan for evaluation of iDEM hop-on project.
General Recommendations for Piloting

Report on the methodology for piloting activities.

Policy Brief Report

Recommendations for future research needs and actions to reach and influence policy makers.

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan v1

Data Management Plan (initial).

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (3)

IEEE Access

Author(s): Nelson Perez-Rojas; Saúl Calderón Ramírez; Martín Solís; Mario Romero-Sandoval; Monica Arias-Monge; Horacio Saggion
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue (Volume: 13), 2025, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: IEEE Access
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3568693

Artificial intelligence and natural language processing for easy-to-read texts

Author(s): Horacio Saggion
Published in: Revista de Llengua i Dret, 2024, ISSN 2013-1453
Publisher: Escola d'Administració Pública de Catalunya
DOI: 10.58992/RLD.I82.2024.4362

Comunicaciones

Author(s): Varios Autores
Published in: Siglo Cero, Issue 56, 2025, ISSN 2530-0350
Publisher: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
DOI: 10.14201/SCERO.32428

Conference proceedings (20)

Reading Between the Lines: A dataset and a study on why some texts are tougher than others

Author(s): Khallaf, Nouran, Carlo Eugeni, Serge Sharoff
Published in: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Writing Aids at the Crossroads of AI, Cognitive Science and NLP (WRAICOGS 2025), 2025
Publisher: International Committee on Computational Linguistics

Align and Shine: Building High-quality Sentence-aligned Corpora for Multilingual Text Simplification

Author(s): Luis Kenji Hilasaca Sanchez, Nouran Khallaf, Serge Sharoff
Published in: Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC), 2026
Publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
DOI: 10.63317/55PT8XQGKGE6

Die normativen Wirkungen von Technik verhandelbar machen und Zielkonflikte moderieren – Partizipative KI-Entwicklung mit vulnerablen Gruppen

Author(s): Sayman, Volkan Guagnin, Daniel Blanchet, Thomas
Published in: INFORMATIK 2025: The Wide Open - Offenheit von Source bis Science, Issue 366, 2025, ISSN 2944-7682
Publisher: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
DOI: 10.18420/INF2025_46

Inclusive participation: Easy Language and democratic process design in iDEM project

Author(s): Almudena Rascón Alcaina
Published in: KLAARA 2025 CONFERENCE ON EASY-TO-READ LANGUAGE RESEARCH, Issue 4, 2025, ISBN 978-9934-580-23-9
Publisher: University of Latvia (LU) Institute of the Latvian Language
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.21371370

Segmenting Italian Sentences for Easy Reading

Author(s): Marta Cozzini, Horacio Saggion
Published in: 2025
Publisher: CLiC-it 2025: Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17697505

Democracy Made Easy: Simplifying Complex Topics to Enable Democratic Participation

Author(s): Nouran Khallaf, Stefan Bott, Carlo Eugeni, John O’Flaherty, Serge Sharoff, Horacio Saggion
Published in: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Easy and Plain Language in Institutional Contexts (AI & EL/PL), pages 108–124, Issue 1, 2025
Publisher: European Association for Machine Translation
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17700966

Towards Trustworthy Lexical Simplification: Exploring Safety and Efficiency with Small LLMs.

Author(s): Akio Hayakawa, Stefan Bott, Horacio Saggion
Published in: Proceedings of the 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference, pages 215–231, Issue 18, 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17700806

UNIVERSALCEFR: Enabling Open Multilingual Research on Language Proficiency Assessment

Author(s): Imperial, J. M., Baraean, A., Stodden, R., Wilkens, R., Muñoz Sánchez, R., Gao, L., R. Toribio, M. E., Reynolds, R., Ribeiro, E., Saggion, H., Volodina, E., Vajjala, S., François, T., Alva Manchego, F., & Tayyar Madabushi, H.
Published in: Proceeding of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 9714-9766., 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2025.EMNLP-MAIN.491

How Much Noise Can BERT Handle? Insights from Multilingual Sentence Difficulty Detection

Author(s): Nouran Khallaf, Serge Sharoff
Published in: Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), 2026
Publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
DOI: 10.63317/3996HXSMFA2K

To Predict or Not to Predict? Towards Reliable Uncertainty Estimation in the Presence of Noise

Author(s): Nouran Khallaf, Serge Sharoff
Published in: Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), 2026
Publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
DOI: 10.63317/5ECB4BJ2CV4V

A Multilingual Human Annotated Corpus of Original and Easy-to-Read Texts to Support Access to Democratic Participatory Processes

Author(s): Verena Riegler, Stefan Bott, Horacio Saggion, Almudena Rascón Alcaina, Nouran Khallaf
Published in: Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), 2026
Publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
DOI: 10.63317/4B56CZA6E7ZK

Lexical Complexity Prediction and Lexical Simplification for Catalan and Spanish: Resource Creation, Quality Assessment, and Ethical Considerations

Author(s): Horacio Saggion, Stefan Bott, Sandra Szasz, Nelson Pérez, Saúl Calderón, Martín Solís
Published in: Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2024), 2024
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2024.TSAR-1.9

Democracy For All – Strategies for A More Inclusive Future

Author(s): Carlo Eugeni
Published in: Tiro-The Journal of Professional Reporting and Transcription, Issue 2/2024, 2024, ISSN 2684-5989
Publisher: Intersteno

Can LLMs solve reading comprehension tests as second language learners?

Author(s): Hayakawa, Akio; Saggion, Horacio
Published in: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2025
Publisher: WRAICOGS 2025
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15673016

An extensible massively multilingual lexical simplification pipeline dataset using the MultiLS framework

Author(s): Shardlow, Matthew; Bott, Stefan Markus; Hayakawa, Akio; Saggion, Horacio
Published in: 3rd Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with REAding DIfficulties (READI), Issue pages 38-46, 2025
Publisher: 2024 ELRA
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15638852

The iDEM Project: Addressing Linguistic Barriers in Deliberative Processes

Author(s): H. Saggion, S. Bott, J. Martí, S. Szasz, S. Sharoff, J. O’Flaherty, T. Blanchet, V. Sayman, M. Gollegger, A. Rascón, S. Sanfilippo, L. Muñoz
Published in: CEUR Workshop Proceeding, Issue 3759, ISSN 1613-0073
Publisher: CEUR-WS.org

AI Agents and the Future of Deliberation: Designing Human–AI Collaboration for Democratic Dialogue

Author(s): Weiyu Zhang, Simon Tangi Perrault, ShunYi Yeo, Jiaxin Pei, Anna De Liddo, Francesco Veri, Maurice Flechtner, Horacio Saggion
Published in: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3772363.3790075

UoL-UPF at TSAR 2025 Shared Task: A Generate-and-Select Approach for Readability-Controlled Text Simplification

Author(s): Akio Hayakawa, Nouran Khallaf, Serge Sharoff, Horacio Saggion
Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2025), 2025
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17698365

The BEA 2024 Shared Task on the Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline

Author(s): Shardlow, Matthew; Alva-Manchego, Fernando; Batista-Navarro, Riza; Bott, Stefan; Calderon Ramirez, Saul; Cardon, Rémi; François, Thomas; Hayakawa, Akio; Horbach, Andrea; Huelsing, Anna; Ide, Yusuke; Imperial, Joseph Marvin; Nohejl, Adam; North, Kai; Occhi
Published in: Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, Issue 2024.bea-1.51, 2024
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics

Making Democratic Deliberation and Participation more Accessible: The iDEM Project

Author(s): Horacio Saggion, John O’Flaherty, Thomas Blanchet, Serge Sharoff, Silvia Sanfilippo, Lian Muñoz, Martin Gollegger, Almudena Rascón, José L. Martí, Sandra Szasz, Stefan Bott and Volkan Sayman
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing, Issue 7, 2024
Publisher: SEPLN – CEDI 2024 Seminar of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing

Book chapters (1)

Lost in Deliberation: Making Democracy Understandable

Author(s): Cristina Astier, Nouran Khallaf, Octavio Barriuso, Claudia Mazzanti, Volkan Sayman, Stefan Bott, Serge Sharoff, Horacio Saggion
Published in: Communications in Computer and Information Science, Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2026, ISBN 978-3-032-19108-3
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-19108-3_32