STARLING at TSAR 2025 Shared Task Leveraging Alternative Generations for Readability Level Adjustment in Text Simplification

Piotr Przybyła


Abstract
Readability adjustment is crucial in text simplification, as it allows to generate language appropriate to the needs of a particular group of readers. Here we present a method for simplifying a text fragment that aims for a given CEFR level, e.g. A2 or B1. The proposed approach combines prompted large language model with sentence-level adjustment of difficulty level. The work is evaluated within the framework of TSAR 2025 shared task, showing a trade-off between precise readability adjustment and faithful meaning preservation.
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2025.tsar-1.12
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2025)
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November
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2025
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Suzhou, China
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Matthew Shardlow, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Kai North, Regina Stodden, Horacio Saggion, Nouran Khallaf, Akio Hayakawa
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TSAR | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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155–159
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Piotr Przybyła. 2025. STARLING at TSAR 2025 Shared Task Leveraging Alternative Generations for Readability Level Adjustment in Text Simplification. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability (TSAR 2025), pages 155–159, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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