--- title: "Catherine Wong — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Catherine Wong: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2026), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/catherine-wong/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/catherine-wong/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Catherine Wong # Catherine Wong Catherine Wong has 3 papers in our library, in 2020–2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Historical linguistics & language change](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/); often with [Joshua B. Tenenbaum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joshua-b-tenenbaum/), [Maxwell Nye](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maxwell-nye/), [Armando Solar-Lezama](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/armando-solar-lezama/). 3 papers in our library · 2020–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5059568414) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8814-7629) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5059568414) · [12 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5059568414) · [171 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5059568414&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/catherine-wong/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 40 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/catherine-wong/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9888](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/99/#star-9888) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Catherine+Wong) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Catherine+Wong) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Catherine+Wong) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Catherine+Wong) ## Affiliations [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2018–2022 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science Applications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-science-applications/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [General Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/general-social-sciences/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Literature and Literary Theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Historical linguistics & language change · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-change/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/catherine-wong/year/2026/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/catherine-wong/year/2021/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/catherine-wong/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Communicating Natural Programs to Humans and Machines](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/acquaviva-2021-communicating-natural-programs-humans-machines/)** *(2021 · 22 citations)* ARC (Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus) is a set of puzzles on grids of colored cells. Given a few input–output examples, one has to infer the rule and apply it to a new input. Humans solve most of these tasks easily, while the best AI systems solve only a small fraction. The authors argue that the reason is language.… 2. **[DreamCoder: Growing generalizable, interpretable knowledge with wake-sleep Bayesian program learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ellis-2020-dreamcoder-growing-generalizable-interpretable-knowledge/)** *(2020 · 22 citations)* Program induction treats learning a task as finding a program that produces the desired behavior. It generalizes well from a few examples and yields knowledge humans can read. In practice, though, it has relied on hand-crafted domain-specific languages (DSLs) and search procedures tuned to them. DreamCoder learns… 3. **[Methods, Data, and Conceptual Change: Reflections from Two Quantitative Diachronic Case Studies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wong-2026-methods-data-conceptual-change-reflections/)** *(2026)* The paper asks how the structure of a historical corpus limits which kinds of meaning change a quantitative method can detect. The authors do not propose a new technique. They set two existing approaches side by side. ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Joshua B. Tenenbaum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joshua-b-tenenbaum/) ×2 - [Maxwell Nye](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maxwell-nye/) ×2 - [Armando Solar-Lezama](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/armando-solar-lezama/) - [Bach Phan-Tat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bach-phan-tat/) - [Kevin Ellis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-ellis/) - [Luke Hewitt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luke-hewitt/) - [Mathias Sable-Meyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mathias-sable-meyer/) - [Michael Henry Tessler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-henry-tessler/) - [Susan Fitzmaurice](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/susan-fitzmaurice/) - [Yewen Pu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yewen-pu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Journal of Open Humanities Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/journal-of-open-humanities-data/): [Journal of Open Humanities Data 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/journal-of-open-humanities-data/2026/) - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2021/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 40 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [15 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/catherine-wong/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026