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Tal August
Google Scholar ID: DkOW1PwAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Human Computer Interaction
Natural Language Processing
Language and Communication
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Citations
1,323
H-index
18
i10-index
21
Publications
20
Co-authors
35
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talaugust6@gmail.com
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Publications
15 items
SocialVeil: Probing Social Intelligence of Language Agents under Communication Barriers
2026
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From Crafting Text to Crafting Thought: Grounding AI Writing Support to Writing Center Pedagogy
2026
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Living Contracts: Beyond Document-Centric Interaction with Legal Agreements
2026
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Learning User Preferences Through Interaction for Long-Term Collaboration
arXiv.org · 2026
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On the Regulatory Potential of User Interfaces for AI Agent Governance
2025
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Designing Beyond Language: Sociotechnical Barriers in AI Health Technologies for Limited English Proficiency
2025
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Perspectra: Choosing Your Experts Enhances Critical Thinking in Multi-Agent Research Ideation
2025
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Personalized Real-time Jargon Support for Online Meetings
2025
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Academic Achievements
Paper Plain: Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with NLP, ACM TOCHI 2023
How Language Formality in Security and Privacy Interfaces Impacts Intended Compliance, CHI 2023
Writing Strategies for Science Communication: Data and Computational Analysis, EMNLP 2020
All That’s ‘Human’ Is Not Gold: Evaluating Human Evaluation of Generated Text, ACL 2021
Named to List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, Dec 2025
Received generous research gift from Allen Institute for AI for personalized literature search, Oct 2024
Co-authors
35 total
Katharina Reinecke
University of Washington
Noah A. Smith
University of Washington; Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Kyle Lo
Allen Institute for AI
Lucy Lu Wang
University of Washington; Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Jonathan Bragg
Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
Co-author 6
Sachin Gururangan
Anthropic
Co-author 8
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