The workshop From Legibility to Text Simplification: Measuring and Improving Text Comprehensibility (FLTS@CLIB2026) focuses on interdisciplinary research on text and speech comprehensibility, bringing together perspectives from linguistics, psycholinguistics, translation studies, education, and Natural Language Processing. It welcomes work on readability assessment, text simplification, accessibility technologies, psycholinguistic evaluation methods, and cross‑linguistic studies of comprehensibility. The workshop aims to connect researchers with practitioners such as educators, policy makers, and developers of language technologies. Submissions may address any aspect of analysing, measuring, or improving the comprehensibility of written or spoken content.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.  

List of Topics

• Analysis and evaluation of text readability; readability indices
• Psycholinguistic studies of text and speech comprehensibility
• Eye‑tracking and finger‑tracking approaches to readability and accessibility
• Linguistic resources and automatic tools for readability assessment, simplification, and comprehensibility
• Assistive reading technologies
• Comprehensibility in translation and interpreting; cross‑linguistic studies
• Manual and automatic text simplification
• Lexical, syntactic, discourse‑level, and document‑level complexity and simplification
• Comprehensibility in specialised domains (medical, legal, disaster management, etc.)
• Measurement of schoolchildren’s reading skills and implications for education
• Public institutions’ procedures for ensuring comprehensibility of official documents
• Multimodal adaptation for diverse audiences
• Generation of accessible and simplified texts
• Evaluation of comprehensibility in content generated by Large Language Models (LLMs), and applications of LLMs in related fields

Organising Committee

• Irina Temnikova, Institute GATE, Bulgaria
• Vito Pirelli, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli”, Italy
• Ruslana Margova, Institute GATE, Bulgaria
• Nevena Grigorova, Institute GATE, Bulgaria
• Andrea Nadalini,  CNR Institute for Computational Linguistics, Italy
• Dimitar Kazakov, University of York, United Kingdom
• Maria Todorova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Venue

The conference will be held in conjunction with the International Conference Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria 2026.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to clib2026@dcl.bas.bg.