@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-lets, title = "Let{'}s Simplify Step by Step: Guiding {LLM} Towards Multilingual Unsupervised Proficiency-Controlled Sentence Simplification", author = "Zhang, Jingshen and Qiu, Xin Ying and Lu, Lifang and Huang, Zhuhua and Hu, Yutao and Wu, Yuechang and Lu, JunYu", editor = "Demberg, Vera and Inui, Kentaro and Marquez, Llu{\'i}s", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EACL} 2026", month = mar, year = "2026", address = "Rabat, Morocco", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.findings-eacl.279/", pages = "5274--5290", ISBN = "979-8-89176-386-9" }