# A Multilingual Human Annotated Corpus of Original and Easy-to-Read Texts to Support Access to Democratic Participatory Processes

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05345 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.05345/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 1 of its 28 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 5 Mar 2026.

## Builds on (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [ASSET: A Dataset for Tuning and Evaluation of Sentence Simplification Models with Multiple Rewriting Transformations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.00481/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [HULAT2 at MER-TRANS 2026: Governed Multi-Agent Simplification for Spanish Easy-to-Read Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.02381/) (2026)
- [SimpCue: Cue-Based Prompting for Multilingual Text Simplification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.28042/) (2026)
- [Reinforcement Learning for improving Large Language Models' Catalan text simplification capabilities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.04823/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Being able to understand information is a key factor for a self-determined life and society. It is also very important for participating in democratic processes. The study of automatic text simplification is often limited by the availability of high quality material for the training and evaluation on automatic simplifiers. This is true for English, but more so for less resourced languages like Spanish, Catalan and Italian. In order to fill this gap, we present a corpus of original texts for these 3 languages, with high quality simplification produced by human experts in text simplification. It was developed within the iDEM project to assess the impact of Easy-to-Read (E2R) language for democratic participation. The original texts were compiled from domains related to this topic. The corpus includes different text types, selected based on relevance, copyright availability, and ethical standards. All texts were simplified to E2R level. The corpus is particularity valuable because it includes the first annotated corpus of its kind for the Catalan language. It also represents a noteworthy contribution for Spanish and Italian, offering high-quality, human-annotated language resources that are rarely available in these domains. The corpus will be made freely accessible to the public.