Search Results for author: Tal August

Found 13 papers, 4 papers with code

Generating Scientific Definitions with Controllable Complexity

1 code implementation ACL 2022 Tal August, Katharina Reinecke, Noah Smith

Unfamiliar terminology and complex language can present barriers to understanding science.

Personalized Jargon Identification for Enhanced Interdisciplinary Communication

no code implementations16 Nov 2023 Yue Guo, Joseph Chee Chang, Maria Antoniak, Erin Bransom, Trevor Cohen, Lucy Lu Wang, Tal August

We collect a dataset of over 10K term familiarity annotations from 11 computer science researchers for terms drawn from 100 paper abstracts.

APPLS: Evaluating Evaluation Metrics for Plain Language Summarization

1 code implementation23 May 2023 Yue Guo, Tal August, Gondy Leroy, Trevor Cohen, Lucy Lu Wang

In response, we introduce POMME, a new metric designed to assess text simplification in PLS; the metric is calculated as the normalized perplexity difference between an in-domain and out-of-domain language model.

Informativeness Language Modelling +2

Beyond Summarization: Designing AI Support for Real-World Expository Writing Tasks

no code implementations5 Apr 2023 Zejiang Shen, Tal August, Pao Siangliulue, Kyle Lo, Jonathan Bragg, Jeff Hammerbacher, Doug Downey, Joseph Chee Chang, David Sontag

In this position paper, we argue that developing AI supports for expository writing has unique and exciting research challenges and can lead to high real-world impacts.

Paper Plain: Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with Natural Language Processing

1 code implementation28 Feb 2022 Tal August, Lucy Lu Wang, Jonathan Bragg, Marti A. Hearst, Andrew Head, Kyle Lo

When seeking information not covered in patient-friendly documents, like medical pamphlets, healthcare consumers may turn to the research literature.

All That's `Human' Is Not Gold: Evaluating Human Evaluation of Generated Text

no code implementations ACL 2021 Elizabeth Clark, Tal August, Sofia Serrano, Nikita Haduong, Suchin Gururangan, Noah A. Smith

Human evaluations are typically considered the gold standard in natural language generation, but as models{'} fluency improves, how well can evaluators detect and judge machine-generated text?

nlg evaluation Text Generation

All That's 'Human' Is Not Gold: Evaluating Human Evaluation of Generated Text

no code implementations30 Jun 2021 Elizabeth Clark, Tal August, Sofia Serrano, Nikita Haduong, Suchin Gururangan, Noah A. Smith

Human evaluations are typically considered the gold standard in natural language generation, but as models' fluency improves, how well can evaluators detect and judge machine-generated text?

nlg evaluation Text Generation

Exploring the Effect of Author and Reader Identity in Online Story Writing: the STORIESINTHEWILD Corpus.

no code implementations WS 2020 Tal August, Maarten Sap, Elizabeth Clark, Katharina Reinecke, Noah A. Smith

We analyze the effect of author and reader characteristics and story writing setup on the quality of stories in a short storytelling task.

The Effect of Moderation on Online Mental Health Conversations

no code implementations19 May 2020 David Wadden, Tal August, Qisheng Li, Tim Althoff

We found that participation in group mental health discussions led to improvements in psychological perspective, and that these improvements were larger in moderated conversations.

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