Tal August

According to our database, Tal August authored at least 31 papers between 2018 and 2024.

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2024

The Semantic Reader Project.

Kyle Lo, Joseph Chee Chang, Andrew Head, Jonathan Bragg, Amy X. Zhang, Cassidy Trier, Chloe Anastasiades, Tal August, Russell Authur, Danielle Bragg, Erin Bransom, Isabel Cachola, Stefan Candra, Yoganand Chandrasekhar, Yen-Sung Chen, Evie Yu-Yen Cheng, Yvonne Chou, Doug Downey, Rob Evans, Raymond Fok, Fangzhou Hu, Regan Huff, Dongyeop Kang, Tae Soo Kim, Rodney Kinney, Aniket Kittur, Hyeonsu B. Kang, Egor Klevak, Bailey Kuehl, Michael Langan, Matt Latzke, Jaron Lochner, Kelsey MacMillan, Eric Marsh, Tyler Murray, Aakanksha Naik, Ngoc-Uyen Nguyen, Srishti Palani, Soya Park, Caroline Paulic, Napol Rachatasumrit, Smita Rao, Paul Sayre, Zejiang Shen, Pao Siangliulue, Luca Soldaini, Huy Tran, Madeleine van Zuylen, Lucy Lu Wang, Chris Wilhelm, Caroline Wu, Jiangjiang Yang, Angele Zamarron, Marti A. Hearst, Daniel S. Weld

Commun. ACM, October, 2024

Evaluating Language Model Math Reasoning via Grounding in Educational Curricula.

Li Lucy, Tal August, Rose E. Wang, Luca Soldaini, Courtney Allison, Kyle Lo

CoRR, 2024

A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants.

Mina Lee, Katy Ilonka Gero, John Joon Young Chung, Simon Buckingham Shum, Vipul Raheja, Hua Shen, Subhashini Venugopalan, Thiemo Wambsganss, David Zhou, Emad A. Alghamdi, Tal August, Avinash Bhat, Madiha Zahrah Choksi, Senjuti Dutta, Jin L. C. Guo, Md. Naimul Hoque, Yewon Kim, Simon Knight, Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Agnia Sergeyuk, Antonette Shibani, Disha Shrivastava, Lila Shroff, Jessi Stark, Sarah Sterman, Sitong Wang, Antoine Bosselut, Daniel Buschek, Joseph Chee Chang, Sherol Chen, Max Kreminski, Joonsuk Park, Roy Pea, Eugenia H. Rho, Shannon Zejiang Shen, Pao Siangliulue

CoRR, 2024

Qlarify: Recursively Expandable Abstracts for Dynamic Information Retrieval over Scientific Papers.

Raymond Fok, Joseph Chee Chang, Tal August, Amy X. Zhang, Daniel S. Weld

Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2024

Personalized Jargon Identification for Enhanced Interdisciplinary Communication.

Yue Guo, Joseph Chee Chang, Maria Antoniak, Erin Bransom, Trevor Cohen, Lucy Lu Wang, Tal August

Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

MathFish: Evaluating Language Model Math Reasoning via Grounding in Educational Curricula.

Li Lucy, Tal August, Rose E. Wang, Luca Soldaini, Courtney Allison, Kyle Lo

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 2024

APPLS: Evaluating Evaluation Metrics for Plain Language Summarization.

Yue Guo, Tal August, Gondy Leroy, Trevor Cohen, Lucy Lu Wang

Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024

Know Your Audience: The benefits and pitfalls of generating plain language summaries beyond the "general" audience.

Tal August, Kyle Lo, Noah A. Smith, Katharina Reinecke

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants.

Mina Lee, Katy Ilonka Gero, John Joon Young Chung, Simon Buckingham Shum, Vipul Raheja, Hua Shen, Subhashini Venugopalan, Thiemo Wambsganss, David Zhou, Emad A. Alghamdi, Tal August, Avinash Bhat, Madiha Zahrah Choksi, Senjuti Dutta, Jin L. C. Guo, Md. Naimul Hoque, Yewon Kim, Simon Knight, Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Antonette Shibani, Disha Shrivastava, Lila Shroff, Agnia Sergeyuk, Jessi Stark, Sarah Sterman, Sitong Wang, Antoine Bosselut, Daniel Buschek, Joseph Chee Chang, Sherol Chen, Max Kreminski, Joonsuk Park, Roy Pea, Eugenia Ha Rim Rho, Zejiang Shen, Pao Siangliulue

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling.

Hang Jiang, Xiajie Zhang, Robert Mahari, Daniel Kessler, Eric Ma, Tal August, Irene Li, Alex Pentland, Yoon Kim, Deb Roy, Jad Kabbara

Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024

2023

Paper Plain: Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with Natural Language Processing.

Tal August, Lucy Lu Wang, Jonathan Bragg, Marti A. Hearst, Andrew Head, Kyle Lo

ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., October, 2023

Language as Design: Adapting Language to Different Online Audiences

Tal August

PhD thesis, 2023

Qlarify: Bridging Scholarly Abstracts and Papers with Recursively Expandable Summaries.

Raymond Fok, Joseph Chee Chang, Tal August, Amy X. Zhang, Daniel S. Weld

CoRR, 2023

APPLS: A Meta-evaluation Testbed for Plain Language Summarization.

Yue Guo, Tal August, Gondy Leroy, Trevor Cohen, Lucy Lu Wang

CoRR, 2023

Beyond Summarization: Designing AI Support for Real-World Expository Writing Tasks.

Zejiang Shen, Tal August, Pao Siangliulue, Kyle Lo, Jonathan Bragg, Jeff Hammerbacher, Doug Downey, Joseph Chee Chang, David A. Sontag

CoRR, 2023

The Semantic Reader Project: Augmenting Scholarly Documents through AI-Powered Interactive Reading Interfaces.

Kyle Lo, Joseph Chee Chang, Andrew Head, Jonathan Bragg, Amy X. Zhang, Cassidy Trier, Chloe Anastasiades, Tal August, Russell Authur, Danielle Bragg, Erin Bransom, Isabel Cachola, Stefan Candra, Yoganand Chandrasekhar, Yen-Sung Chen, Evie Yu-Yen Cheng, Yvonne Chou, Doug Downey, Rob Evans, Raymond Fok, Fangzhou Hu, Regan Huff, Dongyeop Kang, Tae Soo Kim, Rodney Kinney, Aniket Kittur, Hyeonsu B. Kang, Egor Klevak, Bailey Kuehl, Michael Langan, Matt Latzke, Jaron Lochner, Kelsey MacMillan, Eric Marsh, Tyler Murray, Aakanksha Naik, Ngoc-Uyen Nguyen, Srishti Palani, Soya Park, Caroline Paulic, Napol Rachatasumrit, Smita Rao, Paul Sayre, Zejiang Shen, Pao Siangliulue, Luca Soldaini, Huy Tran, Madeleine van Zuylen, Lucy Lu Wang, Chris Wilhelm, Caroline Wu, Jiangjiang Yang, Angele Zamarron, Marti A. Hearst, Daniel S. Weld

CoRR, 2023

How Language Formality in Security and Privacy Interfaces Impacts Intended Compliance.

Jackson Stokes, Tal August, Robert A Marver, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno, Katharina Reinecke

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

2022

Detecting Urgency in Multilingual Medical SMS in Kenya.

Narshion Ngao, Zeyu Wang, Lawrence Nderu, Tobias Mwalili, Tal August, Keshet Ronen

Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2022

Generating Scientific Definitions with Controllable Complexity.

Tal August, Katharina Reinecke, Noah A. Smith

Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2022

2021

The Effect of Moderation on Online Mental Health Conversations.

David Wadden, Tal August, Qisheng Li, Tim Althoff

Proceedings of the Fifteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2021

Do Cross-Cultural Differences in Visual Attention Patterns Affect Search Efficiency on Websites?

Amanda Baughan, Nigini Oliveira, Tal August, Naomi Yamashita, Katharina Reinecke

Proceedings of the CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021

All That's 'Human' Is Not Gold: Evaluating Human Evaluation of Generated Text.

Elizabeth Clark, Tal August, Sofia Serrano, Nikita Haduong, Suchin Gururangan, Noah A. Smith

Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2021

2020

Characterizing the Mobile Microtask Writing Process.

Tal August, Shamsi T. Iqbal, Michael Gamon, Mark J. Encarnación

Proceedings of the MobileHCI '20: 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, 2020

Writing Strategies for Science Communication: Data and Computational Analysis.

Tal August, Lauren Kim, Katharina Reinecke, Noah A. Smith

Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020

Keep it Simple: How Visual Complexity and Preferences Impact Search Efficiency on Websites.

Amanda Baughan, Tal August, Naomi Yamashita, Katharina Reinecke

Proceedings of the CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020

Explain like I am a Scientist: The Linguistic Barriers of Entry to r/science.

Tal August, Dallas Card, Gary Hsieh, Noah A. Smith, Katharina Reinecke

Proceedings of the CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020

Exploring the Effect of Author and Reader Identity in Online Story Writing: the STORIESINTHEWILD Corpus.

Tal August, Maarten Sap, Elizabeth Clark, Katharina Reinecke, Noah A. Smith

Proceedings of the First Joint Workshop on Narrative Understanding, Storylines, and Events, 2020

2019

Pay Attention, Please: Formal Language Improves Attention in Volunteer and Paid Online Experiments.

Tal August, Katharina Reinecke

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019

An Implicit Dialogue Injection System for Interruption Management.

Tomoki Shibata, Alena Borisenko, Anzu Hakone, Tal August, Leonidas Deligiannidis, Chen-Hsiang Yu, Matthew Russell, Alex Olwal, Robert J. K. Jacob

Proceedings of the 10th Augmented Human International Conference 2019, 2019

2018

Framing Effects: Choice of Slogans Used to Advertise Online Experiments Can Boost Recruitment and Lead to Sample Biases.

Tal August, Nigini Oliveira, Chenhao Tan, Noah A. Smith, Katharina Reinecke

Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2018

A Case for Design Localization: Diversity of Website Aesthetics in 44 Countries.

Manuel Nordhoff, Tal August, Nigini Abilio Oliveira, Katharina Reinecke

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018