Papers by Abdullah Barayan
UniversalCEFR: Enabling Open Multilingual Research on Language Proficiency Assessment (2025.emnlp-main)
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Joseph Marvin Imperial, Abdullah Barayan, Regina Stodden, Rodrigo Wilkens, Ricardo Muñoz Sánchez, Lingyun Gao, Melissa Torgbi, Dawn Knight, Gail Forey, Reka R. Jablonkai, Ekaterina Kochmar, Robert Joshua Reynolds, Eugénio Ribeiro, Horacio Saggion, Elena Volodina, Sowmya Vajjala, Thomas François, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Harish Tayyar Madabushi
| Challenge: | Language proficiency research plays a central role in education and often intersects with advances in linguistics and AI. |
| Approach: | They propose a multilingual multidimensional dataset of texts annotated according to the CEFR scale in 13 languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset supports linguistic features and pretrained models in multilingual CEFR level assessment. |
Analysing Zero-Shot Readability-Controlled Sentence Simplification (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Text simplification (RCTS) models often depend on parallel corpora with readability annotations on both source and target sides. |
| Approach: | They propose to use instruction-tuned large language models for zero-shot RCTS to reduce reliance on parallel corpora with readability annotations on both source and target sides. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can generate sentences with the desired readability, but the model's limitations and characteristics of the source sentences impede it. |