The course «Nuevos enfoques para la comunicación global en la era de la IA: traducción, creatividad y lenguajes de especialidad», organised by CLARIAH-CM as part of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) summer courses in El Escorial, has taken place. The course directors, Elena Montiel and Nava Maroto (UCM), invited Iria da Cunha to take part in the course by delivering a lecture entitled «Lenguaje claro asistido por IA: desafíos en el discurso especializado del sector público» and by participating in the round-table discussion moderated by Elena Montiel, «Entre expertos, humanos y máquinas: la terminología y los nuevos entornos de la comunicación especializada», alongside Rosa Estopá (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and Pilar León (Universidad de Granada).

Further information and photos of the event can be found in this news item on the CLARIAH-CM website.

The XX Jornada MEDES 2026 on “Salud en la comunicación en salud”, organised by the Fundación Lilly as part of the summer courses at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, included a session on “Lenguaje claro en la comunicación médico paciente”. Iria da Cunha, coordinator of the arText team, took part in this session alongside Ana Isabel Foulquié (associate professor in the Departamento de Traducción e Interpretación de la Universidad de Murcia) and Beatriz Merino (head of the Sección de Endoscopia Digestiva del Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañón).

In this opinion piece by José Ramón Zárate in Diario Médico, you can find further information and images from the session on “Lenguaje claro en la comunicación médico paciente”.

M. Ángeles Escobar and Paloma Blasco presented the paper “A Corpus-Based Analysis of modal verb shall in binding EU Secondary Legislation” at the Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies Conference (IVACS), held at the University of Malta.

The Ayuntamiento de Valencia invited us to take part in the course “Comunicación clara: ¿cómo debemos escribir para que nos entiendan?”. Specifically, Iria da Cunha led a session in which she shared technological tools to help make writing more understandable, including arText.

Alba Rodríguez presented her Master’s thesis (supervised by Amelia Sanz at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid) at the arText pre- and post-doctoral research seminar. In her study, Alba evaluates administrative texts adapted to plain language using generative artificial intelligence tools.

The ALTYA group at the Universidad de Jaén invited Iria da Cunha to give a lecture as part of its Seminario de Análisis Lingüístico. The talk was entitled “El lenguaje claro en la UNED: investigación, transferencia, divulgación y formación”. Thank you for the invitation!

Iria da Cunha, coordinator of the arText team, presented our team’s projects on plain language and artificial intelligence at the reunión preparatoria de la III Convención of the Red Panhispánica de Lenguaje Claro y Accesible of the Real Academia Española (RAE). The UNED is a member of this network, whose institutional representative is the Rector, Ricardo Mairal, and whose delegate is Iria da Cunha.

Paulina Meza, lecturer and researcher at the Universidad de La Serena (Chile), gave us an overview of her research projects and publications on plain language as part of the arText team’s research seminars.

Thank you, Paulina, for sharing your research with us!

Paloma Blasco and M. Ángeles Escobar presented the paper “Digital Tools for the Analysis of Modality in Legal Texts” at the 5th TISLID (Technological Innovation for Specialised Linguistic Domains) International Conference, held at the  UNED’s Regional Centre in Úbeda (Jaén). In the paper, they presented the results of their research within the framework of the EUPlainTech project.

Iria da Cunha, coordinator of the arText team, presented a session entitled “Lenguaje claro e IA: desafíos y oportunidades” at the seminar “Lenguaje claro y Derecho”, organised by the Real Academia Española (RAE) and CUNEF Universidad as part of the Red Panhispánica de Lenguaje Claro y Accesible. Pictured: Iria da Cunha with Julia Muñoz-Machado and Andrés Betancor (as session organisers) at CUNEF University.

The Tribunal de Cuentas invited Iria da Cunha to speak about artificial intelligence and plain language, and to showcase arText, to young professionals in external auditing. It was a fabulous day!

Iria da Cunha coordinated the panel “Clear Communication: The Challenge of Connecting with Society” at the 2025 Public Innovation Conference, organized by the NovaGob Foundation. The session featured outstanding speakers who presented the clear communication projects currently being implemented in their respective institutions.

Paloma Blasco (PhD candidate on the Programa de Doctorado en Filología. Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios de la UNED) gave a talk on the progress of her doctoral thesis entitled «Compilación y análisis de un corpus de directivas europeas en inglés: hacia la elaboración de una estructura modelo» at the arText team’s 2024/25 pre-doctoral and post-doctoral research seminar.

The arText team has participated with two communications in the II Congreso Internacional de Comunicación Clara (COMCLARA), organised by Ricardo Vizcaino-Laorga and Blas-José Subiela-Hernández, and by the Universidad Católica de Murcia, the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, the Universidad Pontífica de Salamanca and the Estudios del Discurso Académico y Profesional group, EDAP, of the Universidad de Barcelona:

• Sara Pistola and Iria da Cunha presented “El personal de la Administración como pieza fundamental en la evaluación de la tecnología aplicada al lenguaje claro”.
• Laia Vidal-Sabanés and Iria da Cunha presented “Lenguaje claro e inteligencia artificial aplicados a la terminología médica”.

You can see the full conference programme here.

Jadranka Gladic and Iria da Cunha have presented their work on the difficulties of compiling a corpus of TFG  on Administrative Law in Spain and Chile at the Nodos del Conocimiento conference. You can watch the talk below:

ArText team researchers Sara Pistola and Susana Viñuales participated in the IV International Conference ALES 2023, organized by the Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción (Chile). The speakers talked about the analysis of administrative texts and their writing at the university. You can see the complete program of the conference here.

Iria da Cunha, once again this year, participated in the inauguration of the workshop “La escritura del Trabajo Final de Grado y Trabajo Final de Máster en Educación”, organized by the Centro de Escritura and the Facultad de Formación de Profesorado y Educación.

¡Thank you, Jesús Manso (dean), Marta Ferrero (research vice-dean) and Juan Antonio Núñez (coordinator of the Centro de Escritura and member of the arText team), for the invitation!

You can see the program here.

Sara Pistola, FPI predoctoral researcher at the Departamento de Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas de la UNED, presented “Los géneros textuales del ámbito de la Administración en España: análisis de corpus y escritura mediante el uso de la tecnología” at the Encuentro Virtual de Estudiantes de Doctorados en Lingüística of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV). In this event Sara has shared the progress of her thesis with other PhD students.

In the fourth research seminar of the arText team, the researchers of the team have shared the progress of their projects. Moreover, Jadranka Gladic has made some interesting proposals of journals and conferences for the scientific dissemination of the research carried out in the arText team.

M. Ángeles Escobar and Sara Pistola participated in the II Jornadas de Filologías Extranjeras: Comunicación Intercultural, Mediación e Interacción en Línea, organized by the Departamento de Filologías Extranjeras y sus lingüísticas of the Facultad de Filología at UNED. They presented the talk “La mediación a través del lenguaje claro en español y en inglés”, in which she also explained the new project EUPlainTech of the arText team.

You can see the video of the presentation in this link.

On November 9th and 10th took place the I Congreso Internacional de Comunicación Clara -COMCLARA. Several members of the arText team participated in this congress:

• Iria da Cunha took part in the round table on Clear Communication in specialized languages, with the talk “Redacción asistida en lenguaje claro de géneros textuales de ámbitos especializados”.
• Sara Pistola and Susana Viñuales presented “Una propuesta para implementar el lenguaje claro en la enseñanza universitaria del derecho administrativo”, within the panel on Specialized languages and clear communication.
• Laia Vidal-Sabanés presented “La infografía terminológica al servicio del paciente: una propuesta que favorece la comprensión de los tratamientos del cáncer de mama”, within the panel on Design, technology and clear communication.

You can see the program of the congress in this link.

Paulina Yepes (Universidad EAFIT de Medellín) has given the third arText team research seminar as an external guest. In this seminar, entitled “El lenguaje claro desde la mirada del comprensor”, she explained the work she carried out in her doctoral thesis on plain language and eye tracking.

Congratulations, Paulina! 🙂

Yesterday Sara Pistola gave the seminar “Hacia la escritura de textos jurídicos-administrativos más claros mediante el uso de la tecnología” at the Propedéutico program of the Facultad y Escuela de Derecho de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV). The seminar was organized by Carlos Figueroa, A. Paola Duarte and Jadranka Gladic.

Thank you for the invitation!

In the second session of the pre- and post-doctoral seminar of the arText team, we invited two external specialists, who talked about the work in clear communication in the field of administration that is carried out in the Generalitat de Catalunya:

• Esther Peña de las Heras, Subdirectora general d’Atenció Ciutadana de la Direcció General de Serveis Digitals i Experiència Ciutadana de la Generalitat de Catalunya, talked about the “Estrategia de implantación de la comunicación clara en la Administració de la Generalitat de Catalunya”.
• Irema Ferrez Vega, Responsable de tramitació entenedora de la Direcció General d’Administració Digital de la Generalitat de Catalunya, presented “Tramitación clara, una metodologia para mejorar los documentos administrativos”.

Thanks a lot for accepting our invitation! 🙂

Iria da Cunha presented the sistema arText at the PLAIN 2023 International Conference, which this year took place at the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) on September 27, 28 and 29 and it was organized by the Observatorio de Lenguaje Claro of the Law School at the UBA and the Plain Language Association International (PLAIN). Specifically, Iria participated, along with other specialists, in the panel “Artificial intelligence as a tool to clarify language” and her presentation was entitled “Assisted writing in plain language using natural language processing techniques: the arText system”.

Yesterday, Sara Pistola and Iria da Cunha participated in the Working Group on Plain Language at the VIII International Congress on Transparency and Open Government (CIT2023), which took place in Alcalá de Henares. Sara Pistola presented the paper entitled “Los textos que la Administración dirige a la ciudadanía: el caso del Ayuntamiento de Madrid”, which is part of the arText_IMPACT project. You can read the summary of the paper here.

On August 17, Iria da Cunha gave a conference on arText claro at the Instituto de Ingeniería at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) as part of the internal seminars of the Grupo de Ingeniería Lingüística. The conference, entitled “The arText claro system: from research to transfer and dissemination”, can be viewed at this link.

Yesterday, Jenny Azarian, member of the arText team and student of the PhD program in Philology at UNED, gave a seminar entitled “Evaluation of the impact of the use of arText claro on the comprehension and perception of clarity of texts by vulnerable groups” as part of the pre- and post-doctoral seminars of the arText team. In this forum, Jenny Azarian contextualized her research, which is part of the arText_IMPACT project, and presented the objectives, methodology and ongoing work she is carrying out.

M. Ángeles Escobar, lecturer of the Departamento de Filologías Extranjeras y sus Lingüísticas at UNED and member of the arText team,  participated in the 5th Eduling Biannual Meeting: “Grammar teaching and Learning: challenges and opportunities”, which was held last week at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.  The work presented was entitled “A Case Study of Connectors in ESP though a RST grammar as implemented in arText” and you can read the abstract here.

Laia Vidal-Sabanés, postdoctoral researcher Margarita Salas UPF-UNED of the arText team, gave yesterday the seminar “Towards the incorporation of medical plain language in arText claro”, in the framework of the pre- and postdoctoral research seminars of the arText team. Laia Vidal-Sabanés presented the objectives, the methodology and the first advances of her postdoctoral project, which aims to incorporate the medical field in arText claro.

Susana Viñuales, member of the arText team, has participated in the Ciclo “Lenguaje Claro en Español”, organized by the IFPyGP and the Secretaría Legal y Técnica del Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. This cycle of seminars consists of 11 meetings in which specialists in the plain language field present a topic related to this subject. Susana participated in the third meeting, entitled “Plain Language and Artificial Intelligence. The arText experience“, which was attended by more than 180 people.

Several members of the arText team participated in the 3rd International Conference on Innovation in Teaching and Research in the Social and Legal Sciences (INNDOC2023), which took place on July 8 and 9 in virtual format.

On the one hand, Sara Pistola and Susana Viñueales have presented the communication “Use of an assisted editor for writing administrative texts: a proposal for the preparation of the Final Degree Project (TFG)”. In this work, Sara and Susana have presented a TFG proposal that incorporates a writing administrative texts task using the sistema arText. You can read the abstract and watch the presentation in this link.

On the other hand, Jadranka Gladic and Iria da Cunha presented the communication “A characterization of the Law Degree in Spanish and Chilean universities”. In this study, Jadranka and Iria make a contrastive analysis on the number of Final Degree Projects in the field of Law that exist in the two countries mentioned and the sub-themes they deal with. You can read the summary of the paper and retrieve the presentation in this link.

Sara Pistola, member of the arText team and student of the PhD program in Philology at UNED, presented the sistema arText at the III Jornadas de Corrección de Textos en Español (IIIJCTE), organized by the Universidad del Salvador and held virtually on June 1st and 2nd. Sara’s presentation was entitled “The arText system as a tool for writing texts in specialized fields and in clear language” and you can watch it in the following video:

Yesterday, Jadranka Gladic, lecturer at the Pontífica Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, student of the PhD program in Philology at UNED since 2021 and member of the arText team, gave, as part of the pre- and post-doctoral seminars of the arText team, the seminar entitled “The Final Degree Project in Administrative Law: a comparative analysis between Spain and Chile”. Jadranka Gladic presented the objectives, methodology and first results of her doctoral thesis, supervised by Dr. Iria da Cunha.

Iria da Cunha, director of the arText team, presented arText claro at the Clear Writing for Europe 2023 conference. In this edition, the conference was about “Supporting European democracy and transparency through clear language”, with the aim of discussing how public administrations and the European Union can communicate in a clearer way when writing texts addressed to citizens. Iria participated in the Workshop “Drafting and editing tools and resources” together with Stéphanie Guillaume, with the presentation “arText claro: A writing Assistant to draft Spanish administrative texts in plain language”. The conference was attended by more than 1200 people.

Jia Chen, member of the arText team and student of the PhD program in Education at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), presented the progress of her doctoral thesis, supervised by Dr. Iria da Cunha (UNED) and Dr. Juan Antonio Núñez (UAM), at the VIII Jornadas de Doctorado en Educación de la UAM. The conference took place on May 18 and 19 at the Facultad de Formación de Profesorado y Educación of the UAM. The seminar given by Jia Chen was entitled “The use of arText in teaching Spanish as a foreign language to Chinese students: advances in the study”.

Iria da Cunha participated in the IV edition of Un Mundo de Fusión Digital, which took place yesterday at the headquarters of the Escuelas Pías in UNED Madrid. This event aimed to open a dialogue between humanities and technology through various conversations between professionals from different fields. Iria da Cunha participated in the space dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI) along with other specialists. She explained the importance of the sistema arText in the current context and highlighted the importance of interdisciplinary work to achieve integrative and respectful projects in the fields of AI, humanities and technology. The full program is available here and a photo gallery of the event can be viewed here.