PITR 2014 - The 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for Target Reader Populations

PITR is a cross-disciplinary workshop bringing together researchers in any field concerned with the readability, accessibility and quality of text, particularly computational linguists, psycholinguists and educational researchers. We solicit papers on:
Reformulation of existing text (text-to-text systems)
Generation of readable language from data (data-to-text systems)
Generation of text in specific styles and registers for readability
Evaluation of language simplification strategies
Evaluation of the readability of computer-generated text
Evaluation of the readability of machine translation output
Prediction of aspects of text style related to readability
Prediction of the readability of documents
Readability issues in specialist texts such as questionnaires, exam questions, safety instructions, etc.
Novel evaluation strategies for assessing text readability
Novel readability metrics
Techniques for simplifying lexis
Techniques for simplifying syntax
Techniques for simplifying discourse properties (making text more transparent, etc.)
Techniques for manipulating textual layout to improve accessibility
Techniques for making descriptions of numerical quantities more accessible
Techniques for making technical terminology more accessible
Techniques for making descriptions of logical statements more accessible
Techniques for explaining complex ideas through accessible text
Systems aimed at adults with poor literacy
Systems aimed at children learning to read
Systems aimed at 2nd language learners
Systems aimed at people with language deficits (aphasia, deafness, neurodegeneration, etc.)
Systems aimed at non-experts accessing technical material