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Text Readability and Simplification

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Katharina Jeblick
LMU Klinikum
2
Daya Guo
Sun Yat-sen University
3
Yanfang Su
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
4
Jacob Steiss
University of California, Irvine
5
Potsawee Manakul
Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique
6
Ori Ram
Tel Aviv University
7
Wilson Cheong Hin Hong
University of Macau
8
Jia-Cing Liang
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
9
Jianmo Ni
University of California San Diego
10
Byung-Doh Oh
Nanyang Technological University

Rising Stars Papers

1
DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning
Nature|2025
568 cit.
2
Comparing the quality of human and ChatGPT feedback of students’ writing
Learning and Instruction|2024
370 cit.
3
Adapt or adopt? Examining the efficacy of ChatGPT in providing translation feedback
The Interpreter and Translator Trainer|2025
9 cit.
4
U.S. Secondary Students’ Source-Based Argument Writing in History
Written Communication|2024
7 cit.
5
Leading Whitespaces of Language Models’ Subword Vocabulary Pose a Confound for Calculating Word Probabilities
Unknown Journal|2024
3 cit.
6
Dissociable frequency effects attenuate as large language model surprisal predictors improve
Journal of Memory and Language|2025
3 cit.
7
Designing Writing Prompts to Elicit Students’ Historical Thinking
The Social Studies|2024
2 cit.
8
Decoding linguistic complexity in tourism studies
Annals of Tourism Research|2025
2 cit.
9
Zooming into two measurement issues in writing self-efficacy: revision as a distinct dimension and the generality hypothesis in argumentative writing
Reading and Writing|2025
2 cit.
10
Revisiting the impact of errors in L2/FL writing: A methodological review of five decades of research
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics|2025
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Armand Joulin
Meta (Israel)
2
Édouard Grave
Meta (Israel)
3
Samuel R. Bowman
New York University
4
Tengyu Ma
Princeton University
5
Lucy Vasserman
Google (United States)
6
Masaki Eguchi
Waseda University
7
Quan Ze Chen
Center for the Study of Democracy
8
Akifumi Yanagisawa
Western University
9
Alex Barrett
Florida State University
10
Kristopher Kyle
University of Oregon

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Exploring the potential of using an AI language model for automated essay scoring
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics|2023
543 cit.
2
AI-generated feedback on writing: insights into efficacy and ENL student preference
International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education|2023
463 cit.
3
Not quite eye to A.I.: student and teacher perspectives on the use of generative artificial intelligence in the writing process
International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education|2023
311 cit.
4
Measuring Syntactic Development in L2 Writing: Fine Grained Indices of Syntactic Complexity and Usage-Based Indices of Syntactic Sophistication
Digital Archive @ GSU|2022
216 cit.
5
A New Generation of Perspective API: Efficient Multilingual Character-level Transformers
Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining|2022
137 cit.
6
How effective is second language incidental vocabulary learning? A meta-analysis
Language Teaching|2023
86 cit.
7
Is Your Toxicity My Toxicity? Exploring the Impact of Rater Identity on Toxicity Annotation
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction|2022
70 cit.
8
Exploring the Potential of Using an Ai Language Model for Automated Essay Scoring
SSRN Electronic Journal|2023
70 cit.
9
”You have to prove the threat is real”: Understanding the needs of Female Journalists and Activists to Document and Report Online Harassment
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems|2022
40 cit.
10
Eight Things to Know about Large Language Models
Critical AI|2024
26 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Tomáš Mikolov
Czech Union for Nature Conservation
2
Christopher D. Manning
Stanford University
3
Danielle S. McNamara
Arizona State University
4
Jason Weston
New York University
5
Chris Dyer
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
6
James L. McClelland
Stanford University
7
Boris New
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
8
Marc Brysbaert
Ghent University Hospital
9
Alon Lavie
Carnegie Mellon University
10
Hwee Tou Ng
National University of Singapore

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Glove: Global Vectors for Word Representation
Unknown Journal|2014
33.8k cit.
2
Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality
arXiv (Cornell University)|2013
18.1k cit.
3
Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics|2017
9.8k cit.
4
Effective Approaches to Attention-based Neural Machine Translation
Unknown Journal|2015
8.6k cit.
5
The Stanford CoreNLP Natural Language Processing Toolkit
Unknown Journal|2014
7.2k cit.
6
Recurrent neural network based language model
Unknown Journal|2010
5.4k cit.
7
A unified architecture for natural language processing
Unknown Journal|2008
5.2k cit.
8
Distributed Representations of Sentences and Documents
arXiv (Cornell University)|2014
5.1k cit.
9
Curriculum learning
Unknown Journal|2009
5k cit.
10
An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: I. An account of basic findings.
Psychological Review|1981
4.8k cit.

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