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Qingcheng Zeng

@qcznlp.bsky.social

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I do research in social computing and LLMs at Northwestern with @robvoigt.bsky.social and Kaize Ding.

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Qingcheng Zeng @qcznlp.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

This paper is accepted at EACL 2026 main conference. Read and let me know how you think!

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Qingcheng Zeng @qcznlp.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Four papers accepted at the #EMNLP2025 main conference! 1️⃣ Thinking Out Loud: Do Reasoning Models Know When They’re Right? 2️⃣ Seeing is Believing, but How Much? A Comprehensive Analysis of Verbalized Calibration in Vision-Language Models In these two papers, we look into...

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Qingcheng Zeng @qcznlp.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

My bsky "Discover" tab is full of kittens and puppies. That makes my day.

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Qingcheng Zeng @qcznlp.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Our work on pragmatic competence in LLMs was accepted for PragLM@COLM 2025. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2505.18497. Hope we can have someone in Montreal to tell you how much we love this work!

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The Pragmatic Mind of Machines: Tracing the Emergence of Pragmatic Competence in Large Language Models

Current large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated emerging capabilities in social intelligence tasks, including implicature resolution (Sravanthi et al. (2024)) and theory-of-mind reasoning (Shap...

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Qingcheng Zeng @qcznlp.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I just gave a virtual presentation at ACL 2025 on our work about the production–interpretation asymmetry in reference processing in LLMs. If you’re into computational psycholinguistics or the LLMs x cognitive science space, give it a read! aclanthology.org/2025.acl-sho... @robvoigt.bsky.social

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Leveraging Human Production-Interpretation Asymmetries to Test LLM Cognitive Plausibility

Suet-Ying Lam, Qingcheng Zeng, Jingyi Wu, Rob Voigt. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers). 2025.

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