Manuscript Under Review

  • Fausto Carcassi*, Hening Wang*, Chris Cummins, Michael Franke (2026). What guides utterance production and interpretation in argumentative language use? Submitted to Cognition. (* equal contribution)

Conference Papers

  • Hening Wang, Daniel Lassiter, Michael Franke (2026). When correlation means causation: Pragmatic factors modulate causal implicatures in decision-making contexts. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 48, 2929–2935. paper · poster

  • Fausto Carcassi, Hening Wang, Chris Cummins, Michael Franke (2026). What guides utterance choice in argumentative language use? Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 48, 389–395. paper

  • Polina Tsvilodub*, Hening Wang*, 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, 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. paper

  • 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. paper

Talks and Posters

  • Yuhan Guo, Hening Wang (2027). Beyond Common Ground: Knowledge-Type Preferences of German ja. Talk accepted at DGfS 2027, AG 2: “Zooming in on Modal Particles”.

  • Hening Wang, Yuhan Guo, Michael Franke (2026). From controversy to consensus: Modelling community-sensitive common ground management in German discourse markers. Talk accepted at Linguistic Evidence 2026, Mannheim. abstract

  • Fausto Carcassi, Hening Wang, Chris Cummins, Michael Franke (2026). What guides utterance choice in argumentative language use? Oral presentation, CogSci 2026, Rio de Janeiro. paper

  • Hening Wang, Daniel Lassiter, Michael Franke (2026). When correlation means causation: Pragmatic factors modulate causal implicatures in decision-making contexts. Poster, CogSci 2026, Rio de Janeiro. paper · poster

  • 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, Society for Computation in Linguistics 2025, University of Oregon.

  • Hening Wang*, Jia Ren*, Michael Franke (2025). Interpreting plural predication in visual contexts: Cover-based resolution of NP structures. Poster, XPRAG 2025, University of Cambridge; also presented at AMLaP 31, Charles University. (* equal contribution)

  • Hening Wang, Fabian Schlotterbeck (2024). Vagueness and competition in spatial language: Rating and self-paced reading data. Poster, AMLaP 30, 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. poster

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

  • Hening Wang, Fabian Schlotterbeck (2022). Even with subjective adjective precedence, precedence precedes dominance. Poster, AMLaP 28, University of York. video · poster · abstract