@inproceedings{alzubi-reynolds-2026-transformer, title = "Transformer-based readability classifiers are worse than you think: Evidence from cross-domain {A}rabic readability assessment", author = "Alzu{'}Bi, Sarh and Reynolds, Robert", editor = "Kochmar, Ekaterina and Alhafni, Bashar and Bann{\`o}, Stefano and Bexte, Marie and Burstein, Jill and Horbach, Andrea and Laarmann-Quante, Ronja and Tack, Anais and Yaneva, Victoria and Yuan, Zheng", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Innovative Use of {NLP} for Building Educational Applications ({BEA} 2026)", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, USA", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.bea-1.52/", pages = "766--776", ISBN = "979-8-89176-409-5" }