@inproceedings{mattu-etal-2026-saakth, title = "{SAAKTH} at {BEA} 2026 Shared Task 1: {L}1-Aware {E}nglish Vocabulary Difficulty Prediction with Hybrid Transformer and Psycholinguistic Features", author = "Mattu, Karthik and Dhall, Adit and Naguru, Arshad and Sehgal, Shubh and Gowda, Thejas and Sung, Hakyung", 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-1.69/", pages = "1010--1015", ISBN = "979-8-89176-409-5" }