Tal August
Assistant Professor
Studies natural language processing and human-AI interaction for science communication, including language models that adapt scientific text to readers.
Tal August's lab at UIUC works on large language models, signal processing & information theory and data management & big data. 36 papers since 2023, 20 at top venues, mostly CHI and ACL. 6 PhD students and 1 master's student. 2 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 9/ year
- at T1 venues
- 56%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 2
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 14 papers2026 · T1 7 · collecting
- 8 papers2025 · T1 4
- 11 papers2024 · T1 7
- 3 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CHI, ACL, EMNLP, SIGCSE, UIST
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Large language models15 papers
- Data management & big data3 papers
- Signal processing & information theory2 papers
- adapt0 papers
- human-ai interaction0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202614 papers
- CHI Best PaperCocoa: Co-Planning and Co-Execution with AI Agents
- Scientific ReportsDemocratic governance through DAO-based deliberation and voting for inclusive decision making in AI models
- CHI Honorable MentionDesigning Beyond Language: Sociotechnical Barriers in AI Health Technologies for Limited English Proficiency
- EMNLP (T1)FOXGLOVE: Understanding Goal-Oriented and Anchored Writing Feedback from Experts and LLMs on Argumentative Essays
- CHI (T1)From Crafting Text to Crafting Thought: Grounding Intelligent Writing Support to Writing Center Pedagogy
- SIGCSEFrom Data to Action: Empowering Students to Assess and Improve Teamwork with Cross-Tool Log Data
- UIST (T1)From Words to Widgets for Controllable LLM Generation
- EMNLP (T1)Learning User Preferences Through Interaction for Long-Term Collaboration
- CHI (T1)Living Contracts: Beyond Document-Centric Interaction with Legal Agreements
- ACL DemoParseJargon: Personalized Real-time Jargon Support in Online Meetings
- CHI Honorable MentionPerspectra: Choosing Your Experts Enhances Critical Thinking in Multi-Agent Research Ideation
- SIGCSERIPEL: A Data-Augmented Peer Evaluation System for Assessing Teamwork
20258 papers
- L@SCan Learners Navigate Imperfect Generative Pedagogical Chatbots? An Analysis of Chatbot Errors on Learning
- CHI (T1)EvAlignUX: Advancing UX Evaluation through LLM-Supported Metrics Exploration
- PACM HCIImproving Emotional Support Delivery in Text-Based Community Safety Reporting Using Large Language Models
- IEEE URTCMeasuring the Complexity of Sub-Policies in Online Terms of Service Networks
- DISPersonaFlow: Designing LLM-Simulated Expert Perspectives for Enhanced Research Ideation
- ACL (T1)Research Borderlands: Analysing Writing Across Research Cultures
- ACL (T1)Tree-of-Debate: Multi-Persona Debate Trees Elicit Critical Thinking for Scientific Comparative Analysis
- CCS (T1)YouthSafe: A Youth-Centric Safety Benchmark and Safeguard Model for Large Language Models
202411 papers
- CHI (T1)A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants
- EMNLP (T1)APPLS: A Meta-evaluation Testbed for Plain Language Summarization
- Findings of EMNLPEvaluating Language Model Math Reasoning via Grounding in Educational Curricula
- CHI (T1)How AI Processing Delays Foster Creativity: Exploring Research Question Co-Creation with an LLM-based Agent
- CHI (T1)Know Your Audience: The Benefits and Pitfalls of Generating Plain Language Summaries Beyond the "General" Audience
- ACL (T1)Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling
- NAACL (T1)Personalized Jargon Identification for Enhanced Interdisciplinary Communication
- SIGCSEProgramming Plagiarism Detection with Learner Data
- UIST (T1)Qlarify: Bridging Scholarly Abstracts and Papers with Recursively Expandable Summaries
- International Journal of Digital CurationT-KAER: Transparency-enhanced Knowledge-Augmented Entity Resolution Framework
- Communications of the ACMThe Semantic Reader Project: Augmenting Scholarly Documents through AI-Powered Interactive Reading Interfaces
20233 papers
- PACM HCIDiscovering the Hidden Facts of User-Dispatcher Interactions via Text-based Reporting Systems for Community Safety
- CHI (T1)How Language Formality in Security and Privacy Interfaces Impacts Intended Compliance
- TOCHI (T1)Paper Plain: Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with Natural Language Processing
Where alumni went2 listed
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UIUC Siebel Computer Science PhD
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