Scholar
Anshun Asher Zheng
Google Scholar ID: EcgXeOMAAAAJ
University of Texas at Austin
Citations & Impact
Citations
3
H-index
1
i10-index
0
Publications
6
Co-authors
5
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- “Strategic Discourse Assessment: The Crooked Path to Innocence,” arXiv 2025
- “QUDsim: Quantifying Discourse Similarities in LLM-Generated Text,” COLM 2025
- “Nandao-Qs: When Surprise Sparks Inquiry,” to appear in WCCFL43
- “Dynamic Questions: Evidence from Mandarin Think–‘Xiang’,” InqBnB4 (IWCS2023)
- “CP Selection at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: A Case Study in Mandarin think ‘xiang’,” TLS2024
- M.Sc. Thesis: “Anticipating the Future: Forward-Looking Discourse Based on Question Under Discussion (QUD)”
- Presented talks/posters at WCCFL43, PLC48, TLS2024, LSK2023, and InqBnB4
Background
- Second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin
- Member of the syntax/semantics group and computational linguistics group at UT
- Research focuses on the meaning of language (semantics) and how meaning is construed in context (pragmatics)
- Interested in discourse understanding (structure and progression), evaluating and improving LLMs' capabilities in this area
- Also works on theoretical puzzles in semantics/pragmatics, such as clausal complementation, bias, evidentiality, Question Under Discussion (QUD), speech acts, and rhetorical questions
