See my detailed CV here. (Last update: Feb. 2026)

Educational Background

2019 - 2022: M.A. in German Linguistics (with a focus on Psycholinguistics) at the University Tübingen

  • Master Thesis: Subjektivität vs. Diskriminatorische Stärke. Eine experimentelle Studie zu Adjektivenreihenfolgenpräferenzen (Subjectivity vs. discriminatory strangenth. A experimental study for adjective ordering preferences).

2016 - 2019: B.A. in German Studies (with a focus on Linguistics) at Nanjing University

  • Bachelor Thesis: Eine konstrastive Studie zu kausalen komplexen Sätzen im Chinesischen und Deutschen (A contrastiv study for causal complexe sentences in German and Chinese).

Publications

  • Hening Wang*, Polina Tsvilodub*, Sharon Grosch, Michael Franke (2024). Predictions from language models for multiple-choice tasks are not robust under variation of scoring methods. arXiv:2403.00998.
    * equal contribution

  • Hening Wang, Leixin Zhang, Ondřej Bojar (2024). Human and machine: Language processing in translation tasks. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2024), 243–250.

  • Qi Yu, Fabian Schlotterbeck, Hening Wang, Naomi Reichmann, Britta Stolterfoht, Regine Eckardt, Miriam Butt (2024). Ad hoc compounds for stance detection. MWE-UD @ LREC-COLING 2024, 231–242.

  • Fabian Schlotterbeck, Hening Wang (2023). An incremental RSA model for adjective ordering preferences in referential visual context. Society for Computation in Linguistics, 6(1), 121–132.

  • Nadine Balbach, Fabian Schlotterbeck, Hening Wang, Oliver Bott (2022). Disentangling semantic empty-set effects in quantifier comprehension from simple associations: Processing evidence from exceptive-additives. Amsterdam Colloquium 2022.

Poster and Presentations

  • Hening Wang, Fabian Schlotterbeck, Michael Franke (2025). Incremental RSA model explains adjective ordering preferences by communicative efficiency across contexts. Poster, Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025, Utrecht University.

  • Hening Wang, Fabian Schlotterbeck, Michael Franke (2025). Bayesian Inference with Rational Speech Act models in Numpyro. Methodology Lightning Talk, the 8th meeting of Society for Computation in Linguistics (SciL) 2025, University of Oregon.

  • Hening Wang*, Jia Ren*, Michael Franke (2025). Interpreting plural predication in visual contexts: Cover-based resolution of NP structures. Poster, 11th Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG 2025), University of Cambridge; also presented at AMLaP 31 - The Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Charles University.
    * equal contribution

  • Hening Wang, Fabian Schlotterbeck (2024). Vagueness and competition in spatial language: Rating and self-paced reading data. Poster, AMLaP 30 - The Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, University of Edinburgh.

  • Hening Wang, Fabian Schlotterbeck (2024). Exploring communicative efficiency in adjective ordering preferences in visual referential contexts: An experimental and computational approach. Poster, CORE Project Workshop “Unpacking Efficient Communication”, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

  • Hening Wang, Fabian Schlotterbeck (2023). A quantitative exploration of adjective ordering preferences with an incremental Rational Speech Acts model. Talk, ESSLLI 2023 Workshop: Procedural and computational models of semantic and pragmatic processes.

  • Hening Wang, Fabian Schlotterbeck (2022). Even subjective adjective precedence precedes dominance. Poster, AMLaP 28 - The Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, University of York.