Fernando Alva-Manchego

ComplexityMT: Benchmarking the Interaction Between Text Complexity and Machine Translation arXiv preprint

Joseph Marvin Imperial, Junhong Liang, Belal Shoer, Abdullah Barayan, Rodrigo Wilkens, Omar Mussa, Dawn Knight, Eugénio Ribeiro, Ekaterina Kochmar, Sowmya Vajjala, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Harish Tayyar Madabushi · 2026

arXiv DOI PDF

A Meta-evaluation of Automatic Metrics for Elaborative Simplification READIxTSAR @ LREC 2026

Abdullah Alshatti, Steven Schockaert, Fernando Alva-Manchego · 2026

PDF Code

CEFR-Cymraeg: A Dataset and Baseline Models for Language Proficiency Assessment in Welsh LREC 2026

Eeshan Waqar, Jonathan Davies, Dawn Knight, Fernando Alva-Manchego · 2026

Project DOI PDF

Proffiliadur: Welsh Language Text Profiling Toolkit LREC 2026

Nicolás Gutiérrez-Rolón, Jonathan Davies, Tomos Williams, Dawn Knight, Fernando Alva-Manchego · 2026

Project DOI PDF

Unsupervised Labelling of Mutation Triggers in Welsh LREC 2026

Nicolás Gutiérrez-Rolón, Fernando Alva-Manchego · 2026

Project DOI PDF

Findings of the TSAR 2025 Shared Task on Readability-Controlled Text Simplification TSAR @ EMNLP 2025

Fernando Alva-Manchego, Regina Stodden, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Abdullah Barayan, Kai North, Harish Tayyar Madabushi · 2025

ACL Anthology DOI PDF Project

UniversalCEFR: Enabling Open Multilingual Research on Language Proficiency Assessment EMNLP 2025

Joseph Marvin Imperial, Abdullah Barayan, Regina Stodden, Rodrigo Wilkens, Ricardo Munoz Sanchez, Lingyun Gao, Melissa Torgbi, Dawn Knight, Gail Forey, Reka R. Jablonkai, Ekaterina Kochmar, Robert Reynolds, Eugenio Ribeiro, Horacio Saggion, Elena Volodina, Sowmya Vajjala, Thomas Francois, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Harish Tayyar Madabushi · 2025

ACL Anthology DOI Code Dataset PDF Project

CardiffNLP at CLEARS-2025: Prompting Large Language Models for Plain Language and Easy-to-Read Text Rewriting arXiv

Mutaz Ayesh, Nicolás Gutiérrez-Rolón, Fernando Alva-Manchego · 2025

PDF

FreeTxt: Analyse and Visualise Multilingual Qualitative Survey Data for Cultural Heritage Sites RANLP 2025

Nouran Khallaf, Ignatius Ezeani, Dawn Knight, Paul Rayson, Mo El-Haj, John Vidler, James Davies, Fernando Alva-Manchego · 2025

ACL Anthology PDF

Adapting Sentence-level Automatic Metrics for Document-level Simplification Evaluation NAACL 2025

Mounica Maddela, Fernando Alva-Manchego · 2025

ACL Anthology Code PDF

If ChatGPT can do it, where is my creativity? Generative AI boosts performance but diminishes experience in creative writing Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans

Peidong Mei, Deborah N. Brewis, Fortune Nwaiwu, Deshan Sumanathilaka, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Joanna Demaree-Cotton · 2025

DOI PDF

Analysing Zero-Shot Readability-Controlled Sentence Simplification COLING 2025

Abdullah Barayan, Jose Camacho-Collados, Fernando Alva-Manchego · 2025

ACL Anthology PDF

The BEA 2024 Shared Task on the Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline BEA 2024

Matthew Shardlow, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Riza Batista-Navarro, Stefan Bott, Saul Calderon Ramirez, Rémi Cardon, Thomas François, Akio Hayakawa, Andrea Horbach, Anna Hülsing, Yusuke Ide, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Adam Nohejl, Kai North, Laura Occhipinti, Nelson Peréz Rojas, Nishat Raihan, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Martin Solis Salazar, Sanja Štajner, Marcos Zampieri, Horacio Saggion · 2024

ACL Anthology Dataset PDF

An Extensible Massively Multilingual Lexical Simplification Pipeline Dataset using the MultiLS Framework READI @ LREC-COLING 2024

Matthew Shardlow, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Riza Batista-Navarro, Stefan Bott, Saul Calderon Ramirez, Rémi Cardon, Thomas François, Akio Hayakawa, Andrea Horbach, Anna Hülsing, Yusuke Ide, Joseph Marvin Imperial, Adam Nohejl, Kai North, Laura Occhipinti, Nelson Peréz Rojas, Nishat Raihan, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Martin Solis Salazar, Marcos Zampieri, Horacio Saggion · 2024

ACL Anthology Dataset PDF

BLESS: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Sentence Simplification EMNLP 2023

Tannon Kew

Equal Contribution

, Alison Chi

Equal Contribution

, Laura Vásquez-Rodríguez

Equal Contribution

, Sweta Agrawal, Dennis Aumiller, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Matthew Shardlow · 2023

ACL Anthology Code PDF

Simplifying Administrative Texts for Italian L2 Readers with Controllable Transformers Models: A Data-driven Approach CLiC-it 2023

Martina Miliani, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Alessandro Lenci · 2023

Dataset PDF

Comparing Generic and Expert Models for Genre-Specific Text Simplification TSAR 2023

Zihao LI, Matthew Shardlow, Fernando Alva-Manchego · 2023

ACL Anthology PDF

A Practical Toolkit for Multilingual Question and Answer Generation ACL 2023: System Demonstrations

Asahi Ushio, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Jose Camacho-Collados · 2023

Demo ACL Anthology DOI Code PDF

An Empirical Comparison of LM-based Question and Answer Generation Methods Findings of ACL 2023

Asahi Ushio, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Jose Camacho-Collados · 2023

ACL Anthology DOI Code PDF

Generative Language Models for Paragraph-Level Question Generation EMNLP 2022

Asahi Ushio, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Jose Camacho-Collados · 2022

Demo ACL Anthology DOI Code PDF

Improving Embeddings Representations for Comparing Higher Education Curricula: A Use Case in Computing EMNLP 2022

Jeffri Murrugarra-Llerena, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Nils Murrugarra-Llerena · 2022

ACL Anthology DOI Code PDF

A Benchmark for Neural Readability Assessment of Texts in Spanish TSAR 2022

Laura Vásquez-Rodríguez, Pedro-Manuel Cuenca-Jiménez, Sergio Esteban Morales-Esquivel, Fernando Alva-Manchego · 2022

ACL Anthology Code PDF

Neural Readability Pairwise Ranking for Sentences in Italian Administrative Language AACL-IJCNLP 2022

Martina Miliani, Serena Auriemma, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Alessandro Lenci · 2022

ACL Anthology Dataset PDF

PeruSIL: A Framework to Build a Continuous Peruvian Sign Language Interpretation Dataset SignLang 2022

Gissella Bejarano, Joe Huamani-Malca, Francisco Cerna-Herrera, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Pablo Rivas · 2022

ACL Anthology Code Dataset PDF

Simple TICO-19: A Dataset for Joint Translation and Simplification of COVID-19 Texts LREC 2022

Matthew Shardlow, Fernando Alva-Manchego · 2022

ACL Anthology Dataset PDF

Towards Readability-Controlled Machine Translation of COVID-19 Texts EAMT 2022

Fernando Alva-Manchego, Matthew Shardlow · 2022

ACL Anthology PDF Poster

The (Un)Suitability of Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Text Simplification Computational Linguistics

Fernando Alva-Manchego, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia · 2021

ACL Anthology DOI Code PDF Poster Slides Video

deepQuest-py: Large and Distilled Models for Quality Estimation EMNLP 2021: System Demonstrations

Fernando Alva-Manchego, Abiola Obamuyide, Amit Gajbhiye, Frédéric Blain, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia · 2021

ACL Anthology DOI Code PDF Poster Slides

Validating Quality Estimation in a Computer-Aided Translation Workflow: Speed, Cost and Quality Trade-off MT Summit XVIII: Users and Providers Track

Fernando Alva-Manchego, Lucia Specia, Sara Szoc, Tom Vanallemeersch, Heidi Depraetere · 2021

ACL Anthology PDF Slides

IAPUCP at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Stacking Fine-Tuned Transformers is Almost All You Need for Lexical Complexity Prediction SemEval 2021

Kervy Rivas Rojas, Fernando Alva-Manchego · 2021

ACL Anthology DOI Code PDF

Knowledge Distillation for Quality Estimation Findings of ACL-IJCNLP 2021

Amit Gajbhiye, Marina Fomicheva, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Frédéric Blain, Abiola Obamuyide, Nikolaos Aletras, Lucia Specia · 2021

ACL Anthology DOI Code PDF

Controllable Text Simplification with Explicit Paraphrasing NAACL 2021

Mounica Maddela, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Wei Xu · 2021

ACL Anthology DOI Code PDF Poster Slides

Automatic Sentence Simplification with Multiple Rewriting Transformations PhD Thesis

Fernando Alva-Manchego · 2020

White Rose eTheses PDF

ASSET: A Dataset for Tuning and Evaluation of Sentence Simplification Models with Multiple Rewriting Transformations ACL 2020

Fernando Alva-Manchego

Equal Contribution

, Louis Martin

Equal Contribution

, Antoine Bordes, Carolina Scarton, Benoı̂t Sagot, Lucia Specia · 2020

ACL Anthology DOI Code PDF Slides

Data-Driven Sentence Simplification: Survey and Benchmark Computational Linguistics

Fernando Alva-Manchego, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia · 2020

ACL Anthology DOI PDF

EASSE: Easier Automatic Sentence Simplification Evaluation EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019: System Demonstrations

Fernando Alva-Manchego, Louis Martin, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia · 2019

ACL Anthology DOI Code PDF Poster

Cross-Sentence Transformations in Text Simplification WiNLP 2019

Fernando Alva-Manchego, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia · 2019

ACL Anthology PDF Poster

Strong Baselines for Complex Word Identification across Multiple Languages NAACL 2019

Pierre Finnimore, Elisabeth Fritzsch, Daniel King, Alison Sneyd, Aneeq Ur Rehman, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Andreas Vlachos · 2019

ACL Anthology DOI Code PDF Poster

Learning How to Simplify From Explicit Labeling of Complex-Simplified Text Pairs IJCNLP 2017

Fernando Alva-Manchego

Equal Contribution

, Joachim Bingel

Equal Contribution

, Gustavo Paetzold, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia · 2017

ACL Anthology Code PDF

MASSAlign: Alignment and Annotation of Comparable Documents IJCNLP 2017: System Demonstrations

Gustavo Paetzold, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Lucia Specia · 2017

ACL Anthology Code PDF

Coh-Metrix-Esp: A Complexity Analysis Tool for Documents Written in Spanish LREC 2016

Andre Quispesaravia, Walter Perez, Marco Sobrevilla Cabezudo, Fernando Alva-Manchego · 2016

ACL Anthology Code PDF

SciEsp: Structural Analysis of Abstracts Written in Spanish Computación y Sistemas

Irvin Vargas-Campos, Fernando Alva-Manchego · 2016

PDF

Anotação Automática Semissupervisionada de Papéis Semânticos para o Português do Brasil Master's Thesis

Fernando Alva-Manchego · 2013

Teses USP PDF

Semantic Role Labeling for Brazilian Portuguese: A Benchmark IBERAMIA 2012

Fernando Alva-Manchego, João Luís G Rosa · 2012

PDF

Towards Semi-supervised Brazilian Portuguese Semantic Role Labeling: Building a Benchmark PROPOR 2012

Fernando Alva-Manchego, João Luís G Rosa · 2012

PDF

Aplicando Minería de Textos en el Análisis de Mallas Curriculares de Carreras de Computación en el Perú CSPC 2011

Nils Murrugarra-Llerena, Fernando Alva-Manchego · 2011

PDF

Comparação de Grades Curriculares de Cursos de Computação Baseada em Agrupamento Hierárquico de Textos WEI 2011

Nils Murrugarra-Llerena, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Solange O. Rezende · 2011

PDF