Tal August
Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
I am an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, starting Fall 2024. I recently finished my PhD at the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Katharina Reinecke and Noah Smith. I study ways to adapt language styles to different people and I build tools to make language adaptation automatic. I refer to this work as language as design because I see language as the ubiquitous interface we use to communicate and my work as finding new ways of designing language better for different people. The long term goal of my research is to improve our communication with one another and with technology.
My CV: PDF.
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news
Jun 15, 2023 | I will join the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an assistant professor, starting Fall 2024. |
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Jan 30, 2023 | Excited to be returning to the Allen Institute for AI as a Young Investigator. |
Oct 15, 2022 | I defended my thesis! |
selected publications
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How Language Formality in Security and Privacy Interfaces Impacts Intended ComplianceProceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023
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Writing Strategies for Science Communication: Data and Computational AnalysisIn Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020