Tal August

Tal August

@talaugust.bsky.social

Assistant professor @ UIUC, studying personalized language and communication

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Tal August
@talaugust.bsky.social

Do you consider yourself an interdisciplinary researcher? If so, please take part in our study, thanks!

Indu Panigrahi@indupanigrahi.bsky.social

📌 Do you have experience or professional interest engaging with an unfamiliar discipline or a discipline beyond your primary discipline? Complete this 10-15 minute survey! 👉 illinois.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Eligibility criteria and compensation details in 🧵 cc: @talaugust.bsky.social

Tal August
@talaugust.bsky.social

Deadline for submission is in just under 10 days! Reach out if you have any questions.

Tal August@talaugust.bsky.social

What is future of reading? 📗 Announcing the 1st Science & Technology of Augmented Reading (STAR) workshop at #CHI2026! We want your takes on: 🤖 AI & Agents for reading 👁️ Visual Interactions 🗺️ Domains (Code, Law, Ed, etc.) 👇 Submit a 2-4 pg paper: chi-star-workshop.github.io

Tal August
@talaugust.bsky.social

While I'm unfortunately not at #ACL2025, please check out @shaily99.bsky.social's super cool poster on research cultures and language model evaluations!

Shaily@shaily99.bsky.social

#IC2S2 was so much fun, now see you at Vienna at #aclnlp2025. Fine me around the conference or in the poster session on Wednesday at 11 talking about this work, cultural competence in LLMs, and evaluation.

Tal August
@talaugust.bsky.social

🚨 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 feedback! 📝 Try it out 👉 tinyurl.com/writor-system 🧾 Take a short survey (same link) 🎁 Enter a raffle to win $20

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@shaily99.bsky.social

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Been cooking this up with the awesome @mariaa.bsky.social & @talaugust.bsky.social since my internship at S2, @ai2.bsky.social. Very excited to present it at 🎉 @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025 (Main) 🎉 and as one of the 16(!!) plenary talks at 🎉 @ic2s2.bsky.social 🎉 📜 arxiv.org/abs/2506.00784 [10/11]

arxiv.orgResearch Borderlands: Analysing Writing Across Research CulturesImproving cultural competence of language technologies is important. However most recent works rarely engage with the communities they study, and instead rely on synthetic setups and imperfect proxies...

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