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Rodrigo Wilkens

5 accepted papers

2025

Assessing French Readability for Adults with Low Literacy: A Global and Local Perspective

Wafa Aissa, Thibault Ba{\~n}eras-Roux, Elodie Vanzeveren, Lingyun Gao, Rodrigo Wilkens, Thomas Fran{\c{c}}ois
EMNLP 2025

This study presents a novel approach to assessing French text readability for adults with low literacy skills, addressing both global (full-text) and local (segment-level) difficulty. We introduce a dataset of 461 texts annotated using a difficulty scale developed specifically for this population. U

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2025

UniversalCEFR: Enabling Open Multilingual Research on Language Proficiency Assessment

Joseph Marvin Imperial, Abdullah Barayan, Regina Stodden, Rodrigo Wilkens, Ricardo Mu{\~n}oz S{\'a}nchez, Lingyun Gao +13
EMNLP 2025

We introduce UniversalCEFR, a large-scale multilingual multidimensional dataset of texts annotated according to the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference) scale in 13 languages. To enable open research in both automated readability and language proficiency assessment, UniversalCEFR comprises

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2023

TCFLE-8: a Corpus of Learner Written Productions for French as a Foreign Language and its Application to Automated Essay Scoring

Rodrigo Wilkens, Alice Pintard, David Alfter, Vincent Folny, Thomas François
EMNLP 2023long main

Automated Essay Scoring (AES) aims to automatically assess the quality of essays. Automation enables large-scale assessment, improvements in consistency, reliability, and standardization. Those characteristics are of particular relevance in the context of language certification exams. However, a maj…

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2022

Is Attention Explanation? An Introduction to the Debate

Adrien Bibal, Rémi Cardon, David Alfter, Rodrigo Wilkens, Xiaoou Wang, Thomas François +1
ACL 2022long

The performance of deep learning models in NLP and other fields of machine learning has led to a rise in their popularity, and so the need for explanations of these models becomes paramount. Attention has been seen as a solution to increase performance, while providing some explanations. However, a…

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2022

Linguistic Corpus Annotation for Automatic Text Simplification Evaluation

Rémi Cardon, Adrien Bibal, Rodrigo Wilkens, David Alfter, Magali Norré, Adeline Müller +2
EMNLP 2022main

Evaluating automatic text simplification (ATS) systems is a difficult task that is either performed by automatic metrics or user-based evaluations. However, from a linguistic point-of-view, it is not always clear on what bases these evaluations operate. In this paper, we propose annotations of the A…

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