Tal August
@tal_august
Assistant professor @IllinoisCS, prev @allen_ai and @uwcse. HCI + NLP. Designing language for different people.
🚨Calling all writing tutors & instructors! Can writing tools give guidance, but not text suggestions? We built a prototype based on conversations with tutors, and would love your thoughts: 📝 Try it out tinyurl.com/writor-system 🧾 Take a short survey to enter a $20 raffle
🖋️ Curious how writing differs across (research) cultures? 🚩 Tired of “cultural” evals that don't consult people? We engaged with researchers to identify & measure ✨cultural norms✨in scientific writing, and show that❗LLMs flatten them❗ 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2506.00784 1/11
Can AI really help with literature reviews? 🧐 Meet Ai2 ScholarQA, an experimental solution that allows you to ask questions that require multiple scientific papers to answer. It gives more in-depth, detailed, and contextual answers with table comparisons, expandable sections…
* interrupting your election doomscrolling * I'm on the job market! I address online abuse as the next frontier of security & privacy, so all people using tech feel safe. Open to TT faculty/industry research roles in the US/abroad -- lmk if you know of a good home for my work!
Hi friends, colleagues, followers. I am on the faculty job market! I am a PhD student @BerkeleyISchool + @berkeley_ai. I work on NLP, and I believe all language, whether AI- or human-generated, is ✨social and cultural data✨. My work includes: 🧵
Check out our paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114… This work was done last summer with amazing collaborators at semantic scholar / ai2: @josephcc @tal_august @amyxzh @dsweld And come chat with us during the “Learning to Learn” session at 3:35pm on Weds 10/16!
Excited to share that our paper on plain language summarization evaluation has been accepted to the #EMNLP2024 main conference! I’ll be in Miami and will have several PhD openings for Fall 2025. Feel free to reach out if you’d like to chat!
(1/n) Announcing 🍎APPLS, a testbed to evaluate metrics for plain language summarization! arxiv.org/abs/2305.14341 Joint work with @tal_august, @GondyLeroyUA, Trevor Cohen @UW BIME, and @lucyluwang #NLProc #SDProc
New paper 📝 @allen_ai! We worked with educators to identify a novel angle for evaluating language models' reasoning around math and pedagogy. 👩🏻🏫 🐟🍏 We ask, can LMs discern which skills and concepts are targeted by math content? Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2408.04226
Presenting this legal storytelling work in the poster session starting at 11:00AM on August 12 (Monday). Come to chat with me!
Can LLMs promote #learning and #teaching? Our latest work combines #LLMs and #storytelling, a widely-used ancient technique in education, to facilitate the learning of legal concepts and bridge the knowledge gaps between experts and non-experts. arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2402.17019
Interdisciplinary researchers, please take our survey! ▶️ forms.gle/XULo3xTbkm9nuS… Just 6 questions, should take just 2-3 minutes, and we would be so grateful for your input 🙏 Calling digital humanists, computational social scientists, and anyone moving between communities!
📜 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝐶𝐿 𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟, 𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝐶𝐿 𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟? We want to study writing across research communities. If you submit to different venues, do interdisciplinary research, or collaborate across disciplines, please fill out our survey: forms.gle/XULo3xTbkm9nuS…
I'm joining the UIUC @UofIllinois this fall as an Assistant Professor in the iSchool, with an affiliation in Computer Science! My research passion lies in the intersection of NLP and the medical domain. I'm recruiting students for 2025! Check more info: yueguo-50.github.io.