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    2024

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      Cocoa: Co-Planning and Co-Execution with AI Agents
      KJ Feng, Kevin Pu, Matt Latzke, and 6 more authors
      In ArXiv, 2024
      arXiv PDF
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      A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants
      Mina Lee, Katy Ilonka Gero, John Joon Young Chung, and 33 more authors
      In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
      arXiv PDF
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      Evaluating Language Model Math Reasoning via Grounding in Educational Curricula
      Li Lucy, Tal August, Rose E. Wang, and 3 more authors
      In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Findings), 2024
      arXiv PDF
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      Qlarify: Bridging scholarly abstracts and papers with recursively expandable summaries
      Raymond Fok, Joseph Chee Chang, Tal August, and 2 more authors
      In ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2024
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      Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling
      Hang Jiang, Xiajie Zhang, Robert Mahari, and 8 more authors
      In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024
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      Know Your Audience: The Benefits and Pitfalls of Generating Plain Language Summaries Beyond the "General" Audience
      Tal August, Kyle Lo, Noah A. Smith, and 1 more author
      In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
      arXiv PDF
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      Personalized Jargon Identification for Enhanced Interdisciplinary Communication
      Yue Guo, Joseph Chee Chang, Maria Antoniak, and 4 more authors
      In In Proceedings of Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2024
      arXiv PDF
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      The Semantic Reader Project: Augmenting Scholarly Documents through AI-Powered Interactive Reading Interfaces
      Kyle Lo, Joseph Chee Chang, Andrew Head, and 52 more authors
      Communications of the ACM (CACM), 2024
      arXiv PDF
    9. APPLS: A Meta-evaluation Testbed for Plain Language Summarization
      Yue Guo, Tal August, Gondy Leroy, and 2 more authors
      In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024
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    2023

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      Paper Plain: Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with Natural Language Processing
      Tal August, Lucy Lu Wang, Jonathan Bragg, and 3 more authors
      ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 2023
      arXiv PDF
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      How Language Formality in Security and Privacy Interfaces Impacts Intended Compliance
      Jackson Stokes, Tal August, Robert A Marver, and 4 more authors
      Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023
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      Beyond Summarization: Designing AI Support for Real-World Expository Writing Tasks
      Zejiang Shen, Tal August, Pao Siangliulue, and 6 more authors
      ArXiv, 2023
      arXiv PDF

    2022

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      Generating Scientific Definitions with Controllable Complexity
      Tal August, Katharina Reinecke, and Noah A. Smith
      In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022
      arXiv PDF
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      Detecting Urgency in Multilingual Medical SMS in Kenya
      Narshion Ngao, Zeyu Wang, Lawrence Nderu, and 3 more authors
      Proceedings of the Association for the Asia Chapter of the Computational Linguistics (AACL), Student Research Workshop, 2022
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    2021

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      The Effect of Moderation on Online Mental Health Conversations
      David Wadden, Tal August, Qisheng Li, and 1 more author
      The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2021
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      Do Cross-Cultural Differences in Visual Attention Patterns Affect Search Efficiency on Websites?
      Amanda Baughan, Nigini Oliveira, Tal August, and 2 more authors
      Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021
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      All That’s ‘Human’ Is Not Gold: Evaluating Human Evaluation of Generated Text
      Elizabeth Clark, Tal August, Sofia Serrano, and 3 more authors
      In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021
      arXiv PDF

    2020

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      Explain Like I am a Scientist: The Linguistic Barriers of Entry to r/science
      Tal August, Dallas Card, Gary Hsieh, and 2 more authors
      In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020
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      Characterizing the Mobile Microtask Writing Process
      Tal August, Shamsi T. Iqbal, Michael Gamon, and 1 more author
      MobileHCI, 2020
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      Keep it Simple: How Visual Complexity and Preferences Impact Search Efficiency on Websites
      Amanda Baughan, Tal August, Naomi Yamashita, and 1 more author
      Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020
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      Exploring the Effect of Author and Reader Identity in Online Story Writing: the StoriesInTheWild Corpus
      Tal August, Maarten Sap, Elizabeth Clark, and 2 more authors
      Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, First Joint Workshop on Narrative Understanding, Storylines, and Events (NUSE), 2020
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      Writing Strategies for Science Communication: Data and Computational Analysis
      Tal August, Lauren Kim, Katharina Reinecke, and 1 more author
      In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2020
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    2019

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      Pay Attention, Please: Formal Language Improves Attention in Volunteer and Paid Online Experiments
      Tal August, and Katharina Reinecke
      In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019
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      An Implicit Dialogue Injection System for Interruption Management
      Tomoki Shibata, Alena Borisenko, Anzu Hakone, and 6 more authors
      Augmented Human (AH), 2019
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    2018

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      Framing Effects: Choice of Slogans Used to Advertise Online Experiments can Boost Recruitment and Lead to Sample Biases
      Tal August, Nigini Oliveira, Chenhao Tan, and 2 more authors
      Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), 2018
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      A Case for Design Localization: Diversity of Website Aesthetics in 44 countries
      Manuel Nordhoff, Tal August, Nigini A Oliveira, and 1 more author
      Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018
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