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 shed awareness for the different simplification goals and simplified language forms and attract researchers who face the challenges of German text simplification.
Moreover, evaluating text simplification and readability poses challenges, such as the subjective nature of readability, difficulties in assessing the 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 & 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