Papers by Thibault Bañeras-Roux
Assessing French Readability for Adults with Low Literacy: A Global and Local Perspective (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | illiterate individuals are persons aged 15 years and above who cannot read and write with understanding a short simple statement on their everyday life. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel approach to assess french text readability for adults with low literacy skills using a global and segment-level difficulty scale. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach addresses both global (full-text) and local (segment-level) difficulty scales. |
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. |