publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order. generated by jekyll-scholar.

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 CHI, 2024
    arXiv PDF

2023

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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 ArXiv, 2023
    arXiv PDF
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    Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling
    Hang Jiang, Xiajie Zhang, Robert Mahari, and 7 more authors
    In ArXiv, 2023
    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 ArXiv, 2023
    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
    ArXiv, 2023
    arXiv PDF
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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
    TOCHI, 2023
    arXiv PDF
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    APPLS: A Meta-evaluation Testbed for Plain Language Summarization
    Yue Guo, Tal August, Gondy Leroy, and 2 more authors
    ArXiv, 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
    CHI, 2023
    PDF
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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 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
    AACL, Student Research Workshop, 2022
    PDF

2021

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    The Effect of Moderation on Online Mental Health Conversations
    David Wadden, Tal August, Qisheng Li, and 1 more author
    ICWSM, 2021
    PDF
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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
    CHI, 2021
    PDF
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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 ACL, 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 CHI, 2020
    PDF
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    Characterizing the Mobile Microtask Writing Process
    Tal August, Shamsi T. Iqbal, Michael Gamon, and 1 more author
    MobileHCI, 2020
    PDF
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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
    CHI, 2020
    PDF
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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
    ACL, First Joint Workshop on Narrative Understanding, Storylines, and Events (NUSE), 2020
    PDF
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    Writing Strategies for Science Communication: Data and Computational Analysis
    Tal August, Lauren Kim, Katharina Reinecke, and 1 more author
    In EMNLP, 2020
    PDF

2019

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    Pay Attention, Please: Formal Language Improves Attention in Volunteer and Paid Online Experiments
    Tal August, and Katharina Reinecke
    In CHI, 2019
    PDF
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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
    PDF

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
    CSCW, 2018
    PDF
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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
    CHI, 2018
    PDF