Year 2 Periodic Report of the Project
iRead4Skills has just released its Year 2 Periodic Report, highlighting significant progress in the development of intelligent tools to improve literacy in adults with low reading skills.
Aiming to make reading more accessible and effective for Adult Learning (AL) and Vocational Education and Training (VET) learners, the initiative has been combining artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) to classify texts according to their complexity and create innovative reading support solutions.
Key Achievements in the Second Year of the Project
📌 Creation of a specialized linguistic corpus in Portuguese, Spanish, and French, classifying texts by complexity levels for further analysis.
📌 Development of the Intelligent Complexity Analyzer (ICA) API, an innovative system that allows evaluating text readability, identifying complex linguistic patterns, and providing recommendations adapted to users’ literacy levels.
📌 Adoption of machine learning models capable of predicting and automatically classifying the reading difficulty of different types of content.
📌 Co-creation workshops with trainers and learners to validate and improve tools, ensuring they meet the real needs of the target audience.
📌 Strengthened collaboration with policymakers and training institutions, ensuring the practical implementation of developed solutions and their integration into educational programs.
📌 Promotion of Open Science, ensuring that collected data and developed methodologies are accessible to researchers and educators.
The Year 2 Periodic Report is now publicly available and can be accessed via the link: https://zenodo.org/records/15038440
