no code implementations • EMNLP 2020 • Tal August, Lauren Kim, Katharina Reinecke, Noah A. Smith
We collect a corpus of 128k science writing documents in English and annotate a subset of this corpus.
1 code implementation • ACL 2022 • Tal August, Katharina Reinecke, Noah Smith
Unfamiliar terminology and complex language can present barriers to understanding science.
no code implementations • 21 Mar 2024 • Mina Lee, Katy Ilonka Gero, John Joon Young Chung, Simon Buckingham Shum, Vipul Raheja, Hua Shen, Subhashini Venugopalan, Thiemo Wambsganss, David Zhou, Emad A. Alghamdi, Tal August, Avinash Bhat, Madiha Zahrah Choksi, Senjuti Dutta, Jin L. C. Guo, Md Naimul Hoque, Yewon Kim, Simon Knight, Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Agnia Sergeyuk, Antonette Shibani, Disha Shrivastava, Lila Shroff, Jessi Stark, Sarah Sterman, Sitong Wang, Antoine Bosselut, Daniel Buschek, Joseph Chee Chang, Sherol Chen, Max Kreminski, Joonsuk Park, Roy Pea, Eugenia H. Rho, Shannon Zejiang Shen, Pao Siangliulue
In our era of rapid technological advancement, the research landscape for writing assistants has become increasingly fragmented across various research communities.
1 code implementation • 26 Feb 2024 • Hang Jiang, Xiajie Zhang, Robert Mahari, Daniel Kessler, Eric Ma, Tal August, Irene Li, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, Yoon Kim, Jad Kabbara, Deb Roy
Finally, we find that learning with stories shows a higher retention rate for non-native speakers in the follow-up assessment.
no code implementations • 16 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.
1 code implementation • 23 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.
no code implementations • 5 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.
no code implementations • 25 Mar 2023 • Kyle Lo, Joseph Chee Chang, Andrew Head, Jonathan Bragg, Amy X. Zhang, Cassidy Trier, Chloe Anastasiades, Tal August, Russell Authur, Danielle Bragg, Erin Bransom, Isabel Cachola, Stefan Candra, Yoganand Chandrasekhar, Yen-Sung Chen, Evie Yu-Yen Cheng, Yvonne Chou, Doug Downey, Rob Evans, Raymond Fok, Fangzhou Hu, Regan Huff, Dongyeop Kang, Tae Soo Kim, Rodney Kinney, Aniket Kittur, Hyeonsu Kang, Egor Klevak, Bailey Kuehl, Michael Langan, Matt Latzke, Jaron Lochner, Kelsey MacMillan, Eric Marsh, Tyler Murray, Aakanksha Naik, Ngoc-Uyen Nguyen, Srishti Palani, Soya Park, Caroline Paulic, Napol Rachatasumrit, Smita Rao, Paul Sayre, Zejiang Shen, Pao Siangliulue, Luca Soldaini, Huy Tran, Madeleine van Zuylen, Lucy Lu Wang, Christopher Wilhelm, Caroline Wu, Jiangjiang Yang, Angele Zamarron, Marti A. Hearst, Daniel S. Weld
Scholarly publications are key to the transfer of knowledge from scholars to others.
1 code implementation • 28 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.
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?
no code implementations • 30 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?
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.
no code implementations • 19 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.