Papers by Jorge Baptista
The iRead4Skills Intelligent Complexity Analyzer (2025.emnlp-demos)
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Wafa Aissa, Raquel Amaro, David Antunes, Thibault Bañeras-Roux, Jorge Baptista, Alejandro Catala, Luís Correia, Thomas François, Marcos Garcia, Mario Izquierdo-Álvarez, Nuno Mamede, Vasco Martins, Miguel Neves, Eugénio Ribeiro, Sandra Rodriguez Rey, Elodie Vanzeveren
| Challenge: | 20% of EU adult population exhibits low-literacy and numeracy skills (EA, 2021). |
| Approach: | iRead4Skills Intelligent Complexity Analyzer integrates a range of NLP components to assess input texts along multiple levels of granularity and linguistic dimensions in Portuguese, Spanish, and French. |
| Outcome: | The system assigns four tailored difficulty levels and introduces four diagnostic yardsticks—textual structure, lexicon, syntax, and semantics—offering users actionable feedback on specific dimensions of textual complexity. |
Enhancing Writing Proficiency Classification in Developmental Education: The Quest for Accuracy (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing literature raises concerns about automated assessment tools like Accuplacer’s narrow representation of the writing process. |
| Approach: | They propose to use machine-learning to annotate college essays for machine/deep learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the classification accuracy of 100 college-intending students’ essays against human raters. |
Charting the Linguistic Landscape of Developing Writers: An Annotation Scheme for Enhancing Native Language Proficiency (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | An annotation task was designed to capture orthographic, grammatical, lexical, semantic, and discursive patterns exhibited by college native English speakers participating in developmental education (DevEd) courses. |
| Approach: | They propose an annotation task to capture orthographic, grammatical, lexical, semantic, and discursive patterns exhibited by college native English speakers participating in developmental education courses. |
| Outcome: | The proposed annotation task captures orthographic, grammatical, lexical, semantic, and discursive patterns exhibited by college native English speakers participating in developmental education courses. |