I am an MPhil student in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford, supervised by Daniel Altshuler and Keny Chatain. Before coming to Oxford, I studied Logic and Psychology at Sun Yat-sen University, where I work with Liping Tang.
I am a philosopher of language and a cognitive scientist (and I hope to keep it that way). My research focuses on computational pragmatics, especially how conventional meaning and pragmatic inference interact.
I also serve as Treasurer of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain Postgraduate Student Committee.
Email: tianfang.chen [at] ling-phil.ox.ac.uk.
Publications
Do Large Language Models Adapt Politeness Like Humans?
Tianfang Chen, Yuyang Yao, and Liping Tang.
In Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 15412–15429).
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