Language Interaction Lab

Publications

2026

From Words to Widgets for Controllable LLM Generation

Chao Zhang, Yiren Liu, Lunyiu Nie, Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski, Yun Huang, Tal August

UIST 2026

arXiv

FOXGLOVE: Understanding Goal-Oriented and Anchored Writing Feedback from Experts and LLMs on Argumentative Essays

Yijun Liu, Yifan Song, John Gallagher, Sarah Sterman, Tal August

EMNLP 2026

arXiv

Learning User Preferences Through Interaction for Long-Term Collaboration

Shuhaib Mehri, Priyanka Kargupta, Tal August, Dilek Hakkani-Tür

EMNLP 2026

arXiv

Who Plays Which Role When? Communication Role Dynamics for Peer Recognition and Team Performance Prediction

Yifan Song, Wenxuan Wendy Shi, Brian Bailey, Tal August

ACL 2026

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ParseJargon: Personalized Real-time Jargon Support in Online Meetings

Yifan Song, Wing Yee Au, Hon Yung Wong, Brian Bailey, Tal August

ACL Demo 2026

DOI

Explain Like I'm 5 or Whatever I Choose: Evaluating the Interactive Potential of Language Model Responses

Indu Panigrahi, Tal August

ArXiv 2026 Preprint

arXiv

Re-Centering Humans in LLM Personalization

Lechen Zhang, Jiarui Liu, Tal August

ArXiv 2026 Preprint

arXiv

From Crafting Text to Crafting Thought: Grounding Intelligent Writing Support to Writing Center Pedagogy

Yijun Liu, John Gallagher, Sarah Sterman, Tal August

CHI 2026

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Perspectra: Choosing Your Experts Enhances Critical Thinking in Multi-Agent Research Ideation

Yiren Liu, Viraj Shah, Sangho Suh, Pao Siangliulue, Tal August, Yun Huang

CHI 2026 Honorable Mention (top 5%)

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Living Contracts: Beyond Document-Centric Interaction with Legal Agreements

Ziheng Huang, Hari Sundaram, Tal August

CHI 2026

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TermSight: Making Service Contracts Approachable

Ziheng Huang, Tal August, Hari Sundaram

CHI 2026

DOI

Designing Beyond Language: Sociotechnical Barriers in AI Health Technologies for Limited English Proficiency

Michelle Huang, Violeta J. Rodríguez, Koustuv Saha, Tal August

CHI 2026 Honorable Mention (top 5%)

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Cocoa: Co-Planning and Co-Execution with AI Agents

K. J. Kevin Feng, Kevin Pu, Matt Latzke, Tal August, Pao Siangliulue, Jonathan Bragg, Daniel S. Weld, Amy X. Zhang, Joseph Chee Chang

CHI 2026 Best Paper (top 1%)

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Science and Technology for Augmenting Reading (STAR)

Tal August, Andrew Head, Alexa Siu, Elena L. Glassman, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Joseph Chee Chang, Lucy Lu Wang, Marti A. Hearst

CHI 2026 Workshop Proposal

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Mosaic: A Multi-Level Framework for Observing and Evaluating Performance of Multi-Agent Systems

Yiren Liu, Yun Huang, Shunan Guo

CHI 2026 Extended Abstract

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Breaking the Curse of Knowledge: Toward Personalized Jargon Support in Online Meetings

Yifan Song, Yee Wei Au, Hon Yung Wong, Brian P. Bailey, Tal August

CHI 2026 Extended Abstract

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Democratic governance through DAO-based deliberation and voting for inclusive decision making in AI models

Tanusree Sharma, Yujin Potter, Jongwon Park, Yiren Liu, Y. Huang, Xun Liu, Dawn Song, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Yang Wang

Scientific Reports 2026

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RIPEL: A Data-Augmented Peer Evaluation System for Assessing Teamwork

Wenxuan Wendy Shi, Jiaqi Linna Niu, Rohan Kumar, Yifan Song, Brian P. Bailey

SIGCSE 2026

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From Data to Action: Empowering Students to Assess and Improve Teamwork with Cross-Tool Log Data

Yifan Song, Ritika Vithani, Wenxuan Wendy Shi, Brian P. Bailey

SIGCSE 2026

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2025

On the Regulatory Potential of User Interfaces for AI Agent Governance

Kevin Feng, Tae Soo Kim, Rock Yuren Pang, Faria Huq, Tal August, Amy X Zhang

NeurIPS Workshop on Regulatable ML 2025 Workshop

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YouthSafe: A Youth-Centric Safety Benchmark and Safeguard Model for Large Language Models

Yaman Yu, Yiren Liu, Yuqi Zhang, Yun Huang, Yang Wang

CCS 2025

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Measuring the Complexity of Sub-Policies in Online Terms of Service Networks

Rishabh Garg, Ziheng Huang, Hari Sundaram

IEEE URTC 2025

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Tree-of-Debate: Multi-Persona Debate Trees Elicit Critical Thinking for Scientific Comparative Analysis

Priyanka Kargupta, Ishika Agarwal, Tal August, Jiawei Han

ACL 2025

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PersonaFlow: Designing LLM-Simulated Expert Perspectives for Enhanced Research Ideation

Yiren Liu, Pranav Sharma, Mehul Oswal, Haijun Xia, Yun Huang

DIS 2025

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Can Learners Navigate Imperfect Generative Pedagogical Chatbots? An Analysis of Chatbot Errors on Learning

Tiffany Wenting Li, Yifan Song, Hari Sundaram, Karrie Karahalios

L@S 2025

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Research Borderlands: Analysing Writing Across Research Cultures

Shaily Bhatt, Tal August, Maria Antoniak

ACL 2025

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Improving Emotional Support Delivery in Text-Based Community Safety Reporting Using Large Language Models

Yiren Liu, Yerong Li, Ryan Mayfield, Yun Huang

PACM HCI 2025

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EvAlignUX: Advancing UX Evaluation through LLM-Supported Metrics Exploration

Qingxiao Zheng, M. Chen, Pranav Sharma, Yiliu Tang, Mehul Oswal, Yiren Liu, Yun Huang

CHI 2025

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Uncertainty in Action: Confidence Elicitation in Embodied Agents

Tianjiao Yu, Vedant Shah, Muntasir Wahed, Kiet A. Nguyen, Adheesh Juvekar, Tal August, Ismini Lourentzou

ArXiv 2025 Preprint

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Automatic Detection of Research Values from Scientific Abstracts Across Computer Science Subfields

Hang Jiang, Tal August, Luca Soldaini, Kyle Lo, Maria Antoniak

ArXiv 2025 Preprint

PDF arXiv

2024

APPLS: A Meta-evaluation Testbed for Plain Language Summarization

Yue Guo, Tal August, Gondy Leroy, Trevor Cohen, Lucy Lu Wang

EMNLP 2024

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T-KAER: Transparency-enhanced Knowledge-Augmented Entity Resolution Framework

Lan Li, Liri Fang, Yiren Liu, Vetle I. Torvik, Bertram Ludäscher

International Journal of Digital Curation 2024

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Qlarify: Bridging Scholarly Abstracts and Papers with Recursively Expandable Summaries

Raymond Fok, Joseph Chee Chang, Tal August, Amy X Zhang, Daniel S Weld

UIST 2024

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Evaluating Language Model Math Reasoning via Grounding in Educational Curricula

Li Lucy, Tal August, Rose E. Wang, Luca Soldaini, Courtney Allison, Kyle Lo

EMNLP Findings 2024

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Personalized Jargon Identification for Enhanced Interdisciplinary Communication

Yue Guo, Joseph Chee Chang, Maria Antoniak, Erin Bransom, Trevor Cohen, Lucy Lu Wang, Tal August

NAACL 2024

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A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants

Mina Lee, Katy Ilonka Gero, John Joon Young Chung, et al. (incl. Tal August)

CHI 2024

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How AI Processing Delays Foster Creativity: Exploring Research Question Co-Creation with an LLM-based Agent

Yiren Liu, Si Chen, Haocong Cheng, Mengxia Yu, Xiao Chuan Ran, Andrew Mo, Yiliu Tang, Yun Huang

CHI 2024

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Know Your Audience: The Benefits and Pitfalls of Generating Plain Language Summaries Beyond the "General" Audience

Tal August, Kyle Lo, Noah A. Smith, Katharina Reinecke

CHI 2024

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Programming Plagiarism Detection with Learner Data

Yifan Song, Yuanxin Wang, Marshall An, Christopher Bogart, Majd Sakr

SIGCSE 2024

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Leveraging Large Language Models for Learning Complex Legal Concepts through Storytelling

Hang Jiang, Xiajie Zhang, Robert Mahari, Daniel Kessler, Eric Ma, Tal August, Irene Li, Alex Pentland, Yoon Kim, Jad Kabbara, Deb Roy

ACL 2024

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The Semantic Reader Project: Augmenting Scholarly Documents through AI-Powered Interactive Reading Interfaces

Kyle Lo, Joseph Chee Chang, Andrew Head, et al. (incl. Tal August)

Communications of the ACM 2024

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2023

How Language Formality in Security and Privacy Interfaces Impacts Intended Compliance

Jackson Stokes, Tal August, Robert A Marver, Alexei Czeskis, Franziska Roesner, Tadayoshi Kohno, Katharina Reinecke

CHI 2023

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

Zejiang Shen, Tal August, Pao Siangliulue, Kyle Lo, Jonathan Bragg, Jeff Hammerbacher, Doug Downey, Joseph Chee Chang, David Sontag

In2Writing Workshop 2023 Workshop

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Discovering the Hidden Facts of User-Dispatcher Interactions via Text-based Reporting Systems for Community Safety

Yiren Liu, Ryan Mayfield, Yun Huang

PACM HCI 2023

DOI

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

Tal August, Lucy Lu Wang, Jonathan Bragg, Marti A. Hearst, Andrew Head, Kyle Lo

ACM TOCHI 2023

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2022

Detecting Urgency in Multilingual Medical SMS in Kenya

Narshion Ngao, Zeyu Wang, Lawrence Nderu, Tobias Mwalili, Tal August, Keshet Ronen

AACL Student Research Workshop 2022 Workshop

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Generating Scientific Definitions with Controllable Complexity

Tal August, Katharina Reinecke, Noah A. Smith

ACL 2022

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