Right at My Level: A Unified Multilingual Framework for Proficiency-Aware Text Simplification (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing large language model-based readability control methods rely on pre-labeled sentence corpora and primarily target English. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for adaptive multilingual text simplification without parallel corpora supervision that integrates three reward modules: vocabulary coverage, semantic preservation, and coherence. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves higher lexical coverage at target proficiency levels while maintaining original meaning and fluency compared to stronger LLMs. |
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