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Tal August

@talaugust.bsky.social

Assistant professor @ UIUC, studying personalized language and communication

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A beautifully designed roguelike: Hades (second one I think came out recently). Can't say it is super stressful, but worth a play!

03.02.2026 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

03.02.2026 01:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What is future of reading? πŸ“—

Announcing the 1st Science & Technology of Augmented Reading (STAR) workshop at #CHI2026!

We want your takes on: πŸ€– AI & Agents for reading πŸ‘οΈ Visual Interactions πŸ—ΊοΈ Domains (Code, Law, Ed, etc.)

πŸ‘‡ Submit a 2-4 pg paper: chi-star-workshop.github.io

19.12.2025 18:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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

29.07.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks! Happy to be here

11.06.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨 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!
πŸ“ Try it out πŸ‘‰ tinyurl.com/writor-system
🧾 Take a short survey (same link)
🎁 Enter a raffle to win $20

11.06.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

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 πŸŽ‰ @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025 (Main) πŸŽ‰ and as one of the 16(!!) plenary talks at πŸŽ‰ @ic2s2.bsky.social πŸŽ‰

πŸ“œ arxiv.org/abs/2506.00784

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09.06.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Cool! Ya seems like it would be good to have better guardrails for this in an education focused application

15.05.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

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

02.05.2025 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Thanks Maria! We are both former tutors too and that was a major reason we wrote it :)

02.05.2025 11:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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