CFP: KlarText 2026 - Workshop on German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment
Short Title: KlarText 2026
Theme: text simplification; readability assessment
Date: 14-Sep-2026 - 17-Sep-2026
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Contact: Yingqiang Gao
Contact Email: yingqiang.gao [at] cl.uzh.ch
Meeting URL: https://klar-text.github.io/
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics
CFP: KlarText 2026 - Workshop on German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment (co-located with KONVENS 2026, 14.-17.9.2026 in Hamburg)
The KlarText 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 especially want to raise awareness of different simplification goals and simplified language varieties, and to attract researchers working on the challenges of German text simplification.
Moreover, evaluating text simplification and readability poses substantial challenges, including the subjective nature of readability, difficulties in assessing cognitive load across different audiences, and the need for large, diverse datasets that reflect the complexity of real-world language use. The KlarText Workshop provides a dedicated venue for interdisciplinary collaboration, bridging NLP, computational linguistics, and cognitive science while also addressing these challenges and exploring regulatory frameworks for public communication. Additionally, we invite cross-linguistic perspectives that examine how insights from German or other languages can inform multilingual and cross-lingual simplification efforts, especially for Easy Language variants in other languages, such as lectura fácil in Spanish, facile à lire et à comprendre (FALC) in French, or Vieglā valoda in Latvian.
We invite submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to the following:
- German text simplification
- Readability assessment
- Resources and approaches for Easy Language
- Evaluation and human-centered assessment
- Applications and real-world impact
- Cross-linguistic and multilingual perspectives
- Corpus analysis and non-computational approaches
- Personalized simplification solutions
- Multimodal solutions for accessible communication
Important dates:
- 2 July 2026, 23:59 AoE: Direct paper submission deadline
- 26 July 2026, 23:59 AoE: Submission deadline for pre-reviewed papers (ARR March/May 2026 cycle or KONVENS submissions)
- 4 August 2026: Notification of acceptance
- 15 August 2026: Deadline for camera-ready papers
Organizers:
- Miriam Anschütz (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
- Yingqiang Gao (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Thorben Schomacker (HAW Hamburg & University of Hamburg, Germany)
- Regina Stodden (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
For more information, please visit the workshop page: https://klar-text.github.io/
Best regards,
Yingqiang Gao, on behalf of the KlarText 2026 organizers