CfP KlarText 2026 - Workshop on German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment @ KONVENS

CFP: KlarText 2026 C  Workshop on German Text Simplification & Readability Assessment<https://klar-text.github.io/>


Co-located with KONVENS 2026<https://konvens2026.uni-hamburg.de/> (14C17 Sept 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 forms and attract researchers working on the challenges of German text simplification.
Moreover, evaluating text simplification and readability poses challenges, such as 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

  - German Text Simplification
- Readability Assessment
- Resources & Approaches for Easy Language
- Evaluation & Human-Centered Assessment
- Applications & Real-World Impact
- Cross-Linguistic & Multilingual Perspectives
- Corpus analysis and non-computational approaches
- Personalized simplification solutions
- Multimodal solutions for accessible communication Important dates:


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 paper


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,
Regina Stodden, on behalf of the KlarText 2026 organizers

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