Akio Hayakawa, Nouran Khallaf, Serge Sharoff, Horacio Saggion. 2025. UoL-UPF at TSAR 2025 Shared Task: A Generate-and-Select Approach for Readability-Controlled Text Simplification. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2025). [Link (to appear)]
Akio Hayakawa, Stefan Bott, Horacio Saggion. 2025. Towards Trustworthy Lexical Simplification: Exploring Safety and Efficiency with Small LLMs. The 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2025). [arXiv] [Link (to appear)]
Adam Nohejl, Akio Hayakawa, Yusuke Ide, Taro Watanabe. 2025. Lexical Simplification: From a Japanese Dataset to Multilingual Methods Leveraging Large Language Models and a YouTube Subtitle Corpus. 自然言語処理 (Journal of Natural Language Processing). [Link (to appear)]
Adam Nohejl, Akio Hayakawa, Yusuke Ide, Taro Watanabe. 2024. Difficult for Whom? A study of Japanese Lexical Complexity. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2024). [Link]
Akio Hayakawa, Horacio Saggion. 2024. Can LLMs Solve Reading Comprehension Tests as Second Language Learners? The 4th Workshop on Knowledge-infused Learning (KiL 2024). [Link]
Matthew Shardlow, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Riza Batista-Navarro, Stefan Bott, Saul Calderon Ramirez, Rémi Cardon, Thomas François, Akio Hayakawa, Andrea Horbach, Anna Huelsing, Yusuke Ide, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Adam Nohejl, Kai North, Laura Occhipinti, Nelson Peréz Rojas, Nishat Raihan, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Martin Solis Salazar, Sanja Štajner, Marcos Zampieri, Horacio Saggion. 2024. The BEA 2024 Shared Task on the Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline. Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024). [Link]
Matthew Shardlow, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Riza Theresa Batista-Navarro, Stefan Bott, Saul Calderon Ramirez, Rémi Cardon, Thomas François, Akio Hayakawa, Andrea Horbach, Anna Huelsing, Yusuke Ide, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Adam Nohejl, Kai North, Laura Occhipinti, Nelson Peréz Rojas, Nishat Raihan, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Martin Solis Salazar, Marcos Zampieri, Horacio Saggion. 2024. An Extensible Massively Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline Dataset using the MultiLS Framework. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with REAding DIfficulties (READI). [Link]
Akio Hayakawa, Tomoyuki Kajiwara, Hiroki Ouchi, Taro Watanabe. 2022. JADES: New Text Simplification Dataset in Japanese Targeted at Non-Native Speakers. Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022). [Link]