Muxuan He [mu ɕyan xɤ] PhD candidate - University of Southern California

Research

Proceedings (journal articles in the making and submission!)

He, Muxuan , & Elsi Kaiser. 2025. “Communication form modulates sentence interpretation: (A)typicality inferences from descriptions vs. direct speech.” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13h973fw

He, Muxuan , Elsi Kaiser, & Khalil Iskarous. 2025. “Modeling sentence polarity asymmetries: Fuzzy interpretations in a possibly wonky world.” To appear in ACL 2025 Proceedings.

He, Muxuan , Elsi Kaiser, & Khalil Iskarous. 2025. “Modeling sentence polarity asymmetries: Fuzzy interpretations in a possibly wonky world.” Society for Computation in Linguistics 8(1): 22. doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/scil.3180. https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/scil/article/id/3180/

He, Muxuan , & Elsi Kaiser. 2025. “Affirmatives vs. Negatives: A complementary relation in probabilistic sentence processing.” To appear in Proceedings of Chicago Linguistic Society 58. https://osf.io/h546v

Hao, Hailin, Muxuan He , & Zuzanna Fuchs. 2024. “Greta is a female director: When gender stereotypes interact with informativity expectations.” In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46). https://escholarship.org/content/qt49d0685w/qt49d0685w_noSplash_3d424091a761f8d27004dad318da3f5c.pdf

Hao, Hailin, & Muxuan He . 2023. Can Large Language Model Surprisal Capture the Informativity Bias in Human Language Processing?. International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence (pp. 178-185). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-38318-2_18

Conference Presentations

2025. Communication form modulates sentence interpretation: (A)typicality inferences from descriptions vs. direct speech . with Elsi Kaiser . CogSci 2025. San Francisco, USA. talk.

2025. Modeling sentence polarity asymmetries: Fuzzy interpretations in a possibly wonky world . with Elsi Kaiser and Khalil Iskarous . Society for Computation in Linguistics. Oregon, USA. talk.

2025. Modeling Pragmatic Accommodation:A [Rational, Irrational] Speaker in a [Wonky, Normal] World . with Elsi Kaiser and Khalil Iskarous . Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL). NAACL, New Mexico, USA. Virtual poster.

2025. What’s described vs. what’s uttered: Communication form modulates effects of typicality . with Elsi Kaiser . Human Sentence Processing (HSP) 2025. University of Maryland. Poster.

2024. Affirmatives vs. Negatives: A complementary relation in probabilistic sentence processing . with Elsi Kaiser . Chicago Linguistic Society 58. University of Chicago. talk.

2023. How informative do we need to be? Asymmetry effects of informativity in the processing of affirmative and negative sentences . with Elsi Kaiser . AMLaP 2023. San Sebastián, Spain. talk.

2023. Can Large Language Model Surprisal Capture the Informativity Bias in Human Language Processing? . with Hailin Hao . AMLaP 2023. San Sebastián, Spain. Poster.

2023. Not Too Surprising, Not Too Boring? The Goldilocks Effects of Likelihood on Real-time Processing . with Elsi Kaiser . HSP 2023. Virtual poster.

2022. -men or not -men (Chinese plural marker): It does not seem to be a question . NWAV Asia-Pacific7. Bangkok, Thailand. talk.