Tal August
talaugust.bsky.social
Tal August
@talaugust.bsky.social
Assistant professor @ UIUC, studying personalized language and communication
Thanks! Happy to be here
June 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Reposted by Tal August
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

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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...
arxiv.org
June 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Cool! Ya seems like it would be good to have better guardrails for this in an education focused application
May 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Thanks Maria! We are both former tutors too and that was a major reason we wrote it :)
May 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM