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CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track

SimpleText is a track organized as a part of CLEF 2026, initiated by CLEF initiative.

SimpleText@CLEF-2026 Program

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SimpleText Track sessions take place in Room 113, except for the plenary CLEF conference sessions in Lecture Room 3.

Remote participation links:

Lecture Room 3: Zoom Link
Lecture Room 113: Zoom Link

Monday 21st September

Lab Overviews Session 1 (Lecture Room 3)

11:30 – 12:30 L. Ermakova, H. Azarbonyad, J. Bakker, B. Chakar, G.K. Shahi, J. Kamps, Overview of the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track: Simplify Scientific Texts (and Nothing More) in: Proceedings of CLEF’26, LNCS, Springer, 2026 (Paper, Slides, DOI).

SimpleText Track Session 1/3 (Room 113)

14:00 - 14:45 CLEF 2026 SimpleText Task Overviews:
Jan Bakker, Liana Ermakova, Jaap Kamps Overview of the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Task 1: Simplify Scientific Text, 5907-5928 (Paper, Slides).
Berkay Chakar, Jan Bakker, Liana Ermakova, Jaap Kamps Overview of the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Task 2: Identify and Avoid Hallucination, 5929-5944 (Paper, Slides).
📶 Gautam Kishore Shahi, Liana Ermakova, Jaap Kamps Overview of the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Task 3: Research Area Classification, 5945-5953 (Paper, Slides).
14:45 - 15:30 CLEF 2026 SimpleText Participant presentations:
📶 Nuria Pirvu, Rémi Cardon HULAT-HAI @ SimpleText 2026 Task 1.1: Prompting Based on Linguistic Analysis for Text Simplification, 6203-6211 (Paper, Slides).
Pascal Mathas, Berkay Chakar, David Carranza Navarrete, Jan Bakker, Jaap Kamps University of Amsterdam at the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track, 6170-6179 (Paper, Slides).
Benjamin Vendeville, Liana Ermakova, Pierre De Loor UBONLP Report on the SimpleText Track at CLEF 2026, 6233-6243 (Paper, Slides).
(Time for additional talks, depending on demand, from the SimpleText track.)

SimpleText Track Session 2/3 (Room 113)

16:00 - 17:30 CLEF 2026 SimpleText Participant presentations:
📶 Ella Hawkins, Kristina Zbinden, Ellis Fitzgerald, Behrooz Mansouri AIIRLab Systems at SimpleText CLEF 2026: Ensemble and Multi-Agent Pipelines for Scientific Text Simplification, 6088-6099 (Paper, Slides).
📶 Sujith M, Sree Krishna S, Varghese K James, Prabavathy Balasundaram SSN Tokatrons at the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track: Plan-Guided BART and Zero-Shot LLM Approaches to Biomedical Text Simplification, 6160-6169 (Paper).
📶 Artemis Capari, Hosein Azarbonyad, Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis Elsevier at CLEF 2026 SimpleText: Deconstructing Scientific Text Simplification with Direct and Multi-Stage LLM Approaches, 6010-6034 (Paper, Slides).
📶 Akio Hayakawa, Horacio Saggion UPF-TALN at the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track: Ensemble Approach for Scientific Text Simplification and Hallucination Classification, 6100-6114 (Paper, Slides).
📶 Manoj Kumar, Prabavathy Balasundaram, Deeraj Kumar Multilingual Scientific Text Simplification Using a Locally Deployed Open-Source LLM: Plan-Driven Sentence Simplification and Summary-Guided Document Simplification with Llama 3.1 8B at the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track — Task 1, 6140-6152 (Paper).
Clyde Lanvin Njinpie Noutche, Christin Katharina Kreutz clnn88@SimpleText 2026 - Task 1: Llama 3-based Simplification for Biomedical Text, 6196-6202 (Paper, Slides).
(Time for additional talks, depending on demand, from the SimpleText track.)

Tuesday 22nd September

Best of Labs, CLEF 2025 (Lecture Room 3)

12:05 - 12:30 Nico Hofmann, Julian Dauenhauer, Nils Ole Dietzler, Idehen Daniel Idahor and Christin Katharina Kreutz, Lexical Simplification for Scientific Texts: Revisiting SARI in the Era of Modern LLMs in: Proceedings of CLEF’26, LNCS, Springer, 2026 (Paper, Slides, DOI).

SimpleText Track Session 3/3 (Room 113)

14:00 – 15:15 CLEF 2026 Participant presentations:
Shih-Hung Wu, Chong-Zhe Yan CYUT at CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track: Hallucination Detection based on Retrieval-Aligned Contextual Fusion and Multi-Tier Cascaded Discernment, 6244-6254 (Paper, Slides).
Marc Hurtado, Vicent Ahuir, Antonio Molina, María-José Castro-Bleda ELiRF-UPV at SimpleText 2026: Decoupling Action Prediction and Controlled Generation for Text Simplification, 6115-6132 (Paper, Slides).
Sandra Conde, Pablo Folgueira, Alberto Díaz NIL-UCM at the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track: Prompting, Fine-Tuning, and Multi-Agent Architectures for Biomedical Text Simplification, 6056-6067 (Paper, Slides).
Julian Dauenhauer, Nico Hofmann, Christin Katharina Kreutz THM@SimpleText 2026 - Task 2: Ensemble-based Hallucination Classification in Text Simplification, 6079-6087 (Paper, Slides).
(Time for additional talks, depending on demand, from the SimpleText track.)
15:15 - 15:30 CLEF 2027 SimpleText Planning Session:
- We want to hear from you!
- What was great about 2026, and what could we improve for you?
- Any ideas or volunteers are welcome!
- SimpleText roadmap (Slides):
  - New data/tasks/setup in 2027?
  - Corpus of document/paragraph/sentence aligned Cochrane abstracts and plain English summaries.
    - Full Cochrane abstracts and Section-level data
    - Cochrane data in other languages.
  - Spotting potential “hallucination” in generative output.
    - Detection without source? and with source?
    - Automatic version of human evaluation/annotation?
    - Source attribution task?

Wednesday 23rd September

No track sessions.

Thursday 24th September

Closing Ceremony and Introduction of CLEF 2027

16:00 – 17:30 Closing and plans for 2027 (including slides on the CLEF 2027 SimpleText track, Slides).

All CLEF 2026 SimpleText track papers

Including authors unable to present in person or online:

SimpleText: Simplify Scientific Text (and Nothing More)

Jan Bakker, Liana Ermakova, Jaap Kamps Overview of the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Task 1: Simplify Scientific Text, 5907-5928 (Paper).
Berkay Chakar, Jan Bakker, Liana Ermakova, Jaap Kamps Overview of the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Task 2: Identify and Avoid Hallucination, 5929-5944 (Paper).
Gautam Kishore Shahi, Liana Ermakova, Jaap Kamps Overview of the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Task 3: Research Area Classification, 5945-5953 (Paper).
Mhd Adnan, Riad Sonbol A_R Team at CLEF2026 SimpleText Task 2.1: Source-Aware Grounding Verification with Scientific Transformer Ensembles, 5954-5960 (Paper).
George Anderson, Edwin Thuma Improving Scientific Research Area Classification through Transformer Fine-Tuning and Per-Document Model Selection, 5961-5973 (Paper).
Pablo Anegón Núñez, Paloma Martínez, Lourdes Moreno HULAT-UC3M at CLEF 2026 SimpleText: Controlled Generation for Scientific Text Simplification with Hallucination Control, 5974-5984 (Paper).
Georgios Arampatzis, Avi Arampatzis DUTH at CLEF 2026 SimpleText: Grounded Biomedical Text Simplification and Evidence-Guided Overgeneration Detection, 5985-6009 (Paper).
Artemis Capari, Hosein Azarbonyad, Zubair Afzal, George Tsatsaronis Elsevier at CLEF 2026 SimpleText: Deconstructing Scientific Text Simplification with Direct and Multi-Stage LLM Approaches, 6010-6034 (Paper).
Feifan Chen, Leilei Kong, Yong Lu MONKEY at SimpleText 2026: Static Few-Shot Prompting for Cochrane Review Scientific Text Simplification, 6035-6044 (Paper).
Run Chen, Yang Yang, Huaiyu Zhang, Leilei Kong FOSU_cr at the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track: A Reference-Guided Few-Shot Prompting Approach for Biomedical Text Simplification, 6045-6055 (Paper).
Sandra Conde, Pablo Folgueira, Alberto Díaz NIL-UCM at the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track: Prompting, Fine-Tuning, and Multi-Agent Architectures for Biomedical Text Simplification, 6056-6067 (Paper).
David Condrey Writerslogic at the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track: Multi-Candidate LLM Simplification and Stacked Complexity Spotting, 6068-6078 (Paper).
Julian Dauenhauer, Nico Hofmann, Christin Katharina Kreutz THM@SimpleText 2026 - Task 2: Ensemble-based Hallucination Classification in Text Simplification, 6079-6087 (Paper).
Ella Hawkins, Kristina Zbinden, Ellis Fitzgerald, Behrooz Mansouri AIIRLab Systems at SimpleText CLEF 2026: Ensemble and Multi-Agent Pipelines for Scientific Text Simplification, 6088-6099 (Paper).
Akio Hayakawa, Horacio Saggion UPF-TALN at the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track: Ensemble Approach for Scientific Text Simplification and Hallucination Classification, 6100-6114 (Paper).
Marc Hurtado, Vicent Ahuir, Antonio Molina, María-José Castro-Bleda ELiRF-UPV at SimpleText 2026: Decoupling Action Prediction and Controlled Generation for Text Simplification, 6115-6132 (Paper).
Shimaa Ibrahim, Wajdi Zaghouani NUQLab at SimpleText 2026: Plan-Guided Biomedical Scientific Text Simplification, 6133-6139 (Paper, Slides).
Manoj Kumar, Prabavathy Balasundaram, Deeraj Kumar Multilingual Scientific Text Simplification Using a Locally Deployed Open-Source LLM: Plan-Driven Sentence Simplification and Summary-Guided Document Simplification with Llama 3.1 8B at the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track — Task 1, 6140-6152 (Paper).
Wenlong Liu, Sixian Qi, Yusheng Yi, Ruilan Lin FutureMakers at the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track: Retrieval-Augmented Evidence-Focused Overgeneration Detection for Task 2.2, 6153-6159 (Paper).
Sujith M, Sree Krishna S, Varghese K James, Prabavathy Balasundaram SSN Tokatrons at the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track: Plan-Guided BART and Zero-Shot LLM Approaches to Biomedical Text Simplification, 6160-6169 (Paper).
Pascal Mathas, Berkay Chakar, David Carranza Navarrete, Jan Bakker, Jaap Kamps University of Amsterdam at the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track, 6170-6179 (Paper).
Sejal Maurya, Ridhi Ladda, Gayatri Tupe, Ritesh Kumar BioSimplex at the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Task 1.1: A Two-Stage Operation-Aware Framework for Scientific Text Simplification, 6180-6189 (Paper).
Sujaudeen Nannai John, Srinidhi Rajagopal, Yadushree Venkatesh DataDumplings at SimpleText 2026: Hierarchical Scientific Domain Classification with Fine-Tuned SciBERT and Taxonomy-Guided Inference, 6190-6195 (Paper).
Clyde Lanvin Njinpie Noutche, Christin Katharina Kreutz clnn88@SimpleText 2026 - Task 1: Llama 3-based Simplification for Biomedical Text, 6196-6202 (Paper).
Nuria Pirvu, Rémi Cardon HULAT-HAI @ SimpleText 2026 Task 1.1: Prompting Based on Linguistic Analysis for Text Simplification, 6203-6211 (Paper).
Pratik Priyanshu, Swati Chandna SRH-ReliableAI at SimpleText 2026 Task 3: A Hierarchy-Constrained, Adversarially Trained Multi-Task Ensemble for Scientific Research Area Classification, 6212-6221 (Paper).
Raneem Rabih, Riad Sonbol, Wesam Alsohle SPU_DeepSimplify at the CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track: A Planning-Based Approach to Scientific Text Simplification, 6222-6232 (Paper).
Benjamin Vendeville, Liana Ermakova, Pierre De Loor UBONLP Report on the SimpleText Track at CLEF 2026, 6233-6243 (Paper).
Shih-Hung Wu, Chong-Zhe Yan CYUT at CLEF 2026 SimpleText Track: Hallucination Detection based on Retrieval-Aligned Contextual Fusion and Multi-Tier Cascaded Discernment, 6244-6254 (Paper).
Zonghua Yang, Haoliang Qi, Yusheng Yi FOSU-YZH-Group at the SimpleText 2026 Track: Statistics-Aware Prompting for Task 1.1 and Exploratory Overgeneration Detection for Task 2, 6255-6266 (Paper).