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. Forthcoming in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. paper · poster
Fausto Carcassi, Hening Wang, Chris Cummins, Michael Franke (2026). What guides utterance choice in argumentative language use? Forthcoming in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 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
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 forthcoming.
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