KlarText Workshop on German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment
Co-located with KONVENS 2025 | Hildesheim, Germany | 10 September 2025
Website: https://klar-text.github.io/
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We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the KlarText Workshop on German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to discuss state-of-the-art methods, share resources, and identify future research directions in German text simplification and readability assessment. We particularly aim to raise awareness of the diverse simplification goals and language forms in German and to attract researchers who are tackling the challenges of German text simplification.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
– German Text Simplification
– Readability Assessment
– Resources & Approaches for Leichte Sprache
– The Role of Large Language Models (LLMs)
– Resources & Benchmarks
– Evaluation & Human-Centered Assessment
– Applications & Real-World Impact
– Cross-Linguistic & Multilingual Perspectives
Important Dates
– Submission deadline: June 30, 2025
– Notification of acceptance: August 1, 2025
– Camera-ready version due: August 15, 2025
– Workshop date: September 10, 2025
Submissions are managed via OpenReview
Organizing Committee
– Salar Mohtaj, DFKI
– Stefan Hillmann, Technische Universität Berlin
– Sebastian Möller, Technische Universität Berlin
– Georg Groh, Technische Universität München
– Hadi Asghari, Technische Universität Berlin
– Miriam Anschütz, Technische Universität München
Contact
For questions or inquiries, please contact:
Salar Mohtaj – salar.mohtaj@dfki.de