📢 Call for Participation: TSAR 2025 Shared Task on Readability-Controlled Text Simplification

We invite you to participate in the TSAR 2025 Shared Task on Readability-Controlled Text Simplification, aimed at generating simplifications of texts that conform to a specified target readability level, balancing reduced linguistic complexity with meaning preservation and fluency.

The shared task is focused on simplifying English paragraphs to specific CEFR levels (A1, A2, B1). Input texts are at B2 level or above. Participants must produce simplified versions that match the target readability level while preserving meaning.

🗓️ Key dates:

* Trial data release: July 16th * Test data release: August 15th * Submission deadline: August 26th * Results: September 2nd

🗃️ No training data provided – you're free to use any publicly available resources 📊 Evaluation: CEFR compliance, meaning preservation, reference similarity 📝 System description papers invited to TSAR 2025 @ EMNLP (Suzhou, China, Nov. 5-9) ℹ️ More info: https://tsar-workshop.github.io/shared-task/ 🔗 Registration at: https://forms.gle/p9rg7FjxaNFWcPVS7

📢 The submission for regular papers to the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR) is also still possible.

ℹ️ More info: https://tsar-workshop.github.io/cfp/

🗓️ Submission deadline: August 26th

-- Regina Stodden (she/her)

Postdoctoral Researcher

Bielefeld University - Semantic Computing Group