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Tal August

@talaugust.bsky.social

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Assistant professor @ UIUC, studying personalized language and communication

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Tal August @talaugust.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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

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Tal August @talaugust.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The STAR workshop at #CHI2026 is just over a week away! Due to increased interest, we're capping our open-door attendance at 100. To make sure everyone interested in the workshop has a spot, please sign up below. 📝 Register: forms.gle/28U2RySizboW... 🌐 Details: chi-star-workshop.github.io

A banner for the STAR (science and technology of augmented reading) workshop. with a lower tag line of "What does the future hold for how we read?"

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Tal August @talaugust.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

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

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Tal August @talaugust.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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

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Tal August @talaugust.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

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

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Tal August @talaugust.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

🚨 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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Shaily @shaily99.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

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]

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Research Borderlands: Analysing Writing Across Research Cultures

Improving 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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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

As a former writing tutor, I've been waiting for someone to write this paper! By Yijun Liu and @talaugust.bsky.social.

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From Crafting Text to Crafting Thought: Grounding Intelligent Writing Support to Writing Center Pedagogy

Yijun Liu, Tal August. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants (In2Writing 2025). 2025.

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