Innovative and Inclusive Democratic Spaces for Deliberation and Participation

Informations projet

iDEM

N° de convention de subvention: 101132431

DOI

10.3030/101132431

Date de signature de la CE 6 Novembre 2023

Date de début 1 Janvier 2024

Date de fin 31 Decembre 2026

Financé au titre de

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Coût total

€ 2 766 946,83

Contribution de l’UE

€ 2 766 946,83

Coordonné par

UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA
Spain

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Livrables

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

Auteurs: Nelson Perez-Rojas; Saúl Calderón Ramírez; Martín Solís; Mario Romero-Sandoval; Monica Arias-Monge; Horacio Saggion
Publié dans: IEEE Access, Numéro (Volume: 13), 2025, ISSN 2169-3536
Éditeur: IEEE Access
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3568693

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

Auteurs: Horacio Saggion
Publié dans: Revista de Llengua i Dret, 2024, ISSN 2013-1453
Éditeur: Escola d'Administració Pública de Catalunya
DOI: 10.58992/RLD.I82.2024.4362

Comunicaciones

Auteurs: Varios Autores
Publié dans: Siglo Cero, Numéro 56, 2025, ISSN 2530-0350
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Khallaf, Nouran, Carlo Eugeni, Serge Sharoff
Publié dans: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Writing Aids at the Crossroads of AI, Cognitive Science and NLP (WRAICOGS 2025), 2025
Éditeur: International Committee on Computational Linguistics

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

Auteurs: Luis Kenji Hilasaca Sanchez, Nouran Khallaf, Serge Sharoff
Publié dans: Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora (BUCC), 2026
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Sayman, Volkan Guagnin, Daniel Blanchet, Thomas
Publié dans: INFORMATIK 2025: The Wide Open - Offenheit von Source bis Science, Numéro 366, 2025, ISSN 2944-7682
Éditeur: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
DOI: 10.18420/INF2025_46

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

Auteurs: Almudena Rascón Alcaina
Publié dans: KLAARA 2025 CONFERENCE ON EASY-TO-READ LANGUAGE RESEARCH, Numéro 4, 2025, ISBN 978-9934-580-23-9
Éditeur: University of Latvia (LU) Institute of the Latvian Language
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.21371370

Segmenting Italian Sentences for Easy Reading

Auteurs: Marta Cozzini, Horacio Saggion
Publié dans: 2025
Éditeur: CLiC-it 2025: Eleventh Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17697505

Democracy Made Easy: Simplifying Complex Topics to Enable Democratic Participation

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

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

Auteurs: Akio Hayakawa, Stefan Bott, Horacio Saggion
Publié dans: Proceedings of the 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference, pages 215–231, Numéro 18, 2025
Éditeur: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17700806

UNIVERSALCEFR: Enabling Open Multilingual Research on Language Proficiency Assessment

Auteurs: 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.
Publié dans: Proceeding of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 9714-9766., 2025
Éditeur: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/V1/2025.EMNLP-MAIN.491

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

Auteurs: Nouran Khallaf, Serge Sharoff
Publié dans: Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), 2026
Éditeur: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
DOI: 10.63317/3996HXSMFA2K

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

Auteurs: Nouran Khallaf, Serge Sharoff
Publié dans: Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), 2026
Éditeur: 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

Auteurs: Verena Riegler, Stefan Bott, Horacio Saggion, Almudena Rascón Alcaina, Nouran Khallaf
Publié dans: Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), 2026
Éditeur: 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

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

Democracy For All – Strategies for A More Inclusive Future

Auteurs: Carlo Eugeni
Publié dans: Tiro-The Journal of Professional Reporting and Transcription, Numéro 2/2024, 2024, ISSN 2684-5989
Éditeur: Intersteno

Can LLMs solve reading comprehension tests as second language learners?

Auteurs: Hayakawa, Akio; Saggion, Horacio
Publié dans: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2025
Éditeur: WRAICOGS 2025
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15673016

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

Auteurs: Shardlow, Matthew; Bott, Stefan Markus; Hayakawa, Akio; Saggion, Horacio
Publié dans: 3rd Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with REAding DIfficulties (READI), Numéro pages 38-46, 2025
Éditeur: 2024 ELRA
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15638852

The iDEM Project: Addressing Linguistic Barriers in Deliberative Processes

Auteurs: 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
Publié dans: CEUR Workshop Proceeding, Numéro 3759, ISSN 1613-0073
Éditeur: CEUR-WS.org

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

Auteurs: Weiyu Zhang, Simon Tangi Perrault, ShunYi Yeo, Jiaxin Pei, Anna De Liddo, Francesco Veri, Maurice Flechtner, Horacio Saggion
Publié dans: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026
Éditeur: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3772363.3790075

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

Auteurs: Akio Hayakawa, Nouran Khallaf, Serge Sharoff, Horacio Saggion
Publié dans: Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2025), 2025
Éditeur: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17698365

The BEA 2024 Shared Task on the Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline

Auteurs: 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
Publié dans: Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, Numéro 2024.bea-1.51, 2024
Éditeur: Association for Computational Linguistics

Making Democratic Deliberation and Participation more Accessible: The iDEM Project

Auteurs: 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
Publié dans: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing, Numéro 7, 2024
Éditeur: SEPLN – CEDI 2024 Seminar of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing

Book chapters (1)

Lost in Deliberation: Making Democracy Understandable

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