--- title: "Weicheng Ma · Oakland University — author profile and papers" description: "Weicheng Ma, Oakland University: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2025), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weicheng-ma/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weicheng-ma/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Weicheng Ma # Weicheng Ma Weicheng Ma has 4 papers in our library, in 2022–2025, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Soroush Vosoughi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/soroush-vosoughi/), [Chiyu Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chiyu-ma/), [Lili Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lili-wang/). 4 papers in our library · 2022–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5043402333) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7494-9874) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130878259) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5043402333) · [60 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5043402333) · [327 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5043402333&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weicheng-ma/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 107 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weicheng-ma/cited-by/) · [5 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/71/#star-7021) 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=Weicheng+Ma) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Weicheng+Ma) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Weicheng+Ma) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Weicheng+Ma) ## Affiliations [🎓**Oakland University** Rochester · United States 2025–2026 · 8 papersEmployment since 2025 · Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/oakland-university/) · [🎓**Dartmouth College** Hanover · United States 2020–2025 · 41 papersEmployment since 2024 · Visiting Scholar, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dartmouth-college/) · [🎓**Georgia Institute of Technology** Atlanta · United States 2024–2025 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgia-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Boston University** Boston · United States 2018 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/boston-university/) · [🎓**City University of New York** New York · United States 2016–2018 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/city-university-of-new-york/) · [🎓**Communication University of China** Beijing · China 2012 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/04facbs33) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## 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).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Political Science and International Relations · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/political-science-and-international-relations/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 6 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [English · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weicheng-ma/year/2025/) · [**2022** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weicheng-ma/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Judging the Judges: A Systematic Study of Position Bias in LLM-as-a-Judge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2025-judging-judges-systematic-study-position/)** *(2025 · 71 citations)* LLM judges are widely used as a cheaper substitute for human evaluators, but they often favour an answer because of where it sits in the prompt rather than because of what it says. 2. **[EnCBP: A New Benchmark Dataset for Finer-Grained Cultural Background Prediction in English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2022-encbp-new-benchmark-dataset-finer/)** *(2022 · 13 citations)* Most NLP work on culture treats it at a coarse level, grouping people by shared official language or by broad "Western/Eastern" splits. 3. **[Dartmouth at SemEval-2022 Task 6: Detection of Sarcasm](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lad-2022-dartmouth-semeval-2022-task-6/)** *(2022 · 2 citations)* The paper describes Team Dartmouth's entry to SemEval-2022 Task 6 (iSarcasmEval), which asks systems to recognise sarcasm in English and Arabic tweets across five subtasks. 4. **[From Test-taking to Cognitive Scaffolding: A Pedagogical Diagnostic Benchmark for LLMs on English Standardized Tests](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tang-2025-test-taking-cognitive-scaffolding-pedagogical/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* Benchmarks that test LLMs on standardized English exams usually check only whether the final answer is right. ## All works 9 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Data Boost: Text Data Augmentation Through Reinforcement Learning Guided Conditional Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.726/) Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · no summary yet**Ruibo Liu et al.*2020 · 103 citations* 2. **[Judging the Judges: A Systematic Study of Position Bias in LLM-as-a-Judge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2025-judging-judges-systematic-study-position/) [International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/)**Lin Shi, Chiyu Ma, Wenhua Liang, et al.*2025 · 71 citations* 3. **[Deciphering Stereotypes in Pre-Trained Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.697/) Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Weicheng Ma et al.*2023 · 17 citations* 4. **[EnCBP: A New Benchmark Dataset for Finer-Grained Cultural Background Prediction in English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2022-encbp-new-benchmark-dataset-finer/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Weicheng Ma, Samiha Datta, Lili Wang, et al.*2022 · 13 citations* 5. **[An Empirical Survey of Unsupervised Text Representation Methods on Twitter Data ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wnut-1.27/) Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2020) · no summary yet**Lili Wang et al.*2020 · 13 citations* 6. **[Simulated Misinformation Susceptibility (SMISTS): Enhancing Misinformation Research with Large Language Model Simulations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.162/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 · no summary yet**Weicheng Ma et al.*2024 · 9 citations* 7. **[Dartmouth at SemEval-2022 Task 6: Detection of Sarcasm](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lad-2022-dartmouth-semeval-2022-task-6/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Rishik Lad, Weicheng Ma, Soroush Vosoughi*2022 · 2 citations* 8. [**From Test-taking to Cognitive Scaffolding: A Pedagogical Diagnostic Benchmark for LLMs on English Standardized Tests arXiv:2505.17056**Luoxi Tang, Tharunya Sundar, Yuqiao Meng, et al.*2025 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tang-2025-test-taking-cognitive-scaffolding-pedagogical/) 9. **[When Debiasing Backfires: Counterintuitive Side Effects of Preprocessing-Based Stereotype Mitigation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.486/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 · no summary yet**Yahan Zheng et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Soroush Vosoughi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/soroush-vosoughi/) ×3 - [Chiyu Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chiyu-ma/) - [Lili Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lili-wang/) - [Lin Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lin-shi/) - [Xingjian Diao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingjian-diao/) - [Yi Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-li/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 ×2 - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) ×2 - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2022/) - [International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/): [IJCNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/2025/) - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/): [SemEval 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2022/) - Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2020) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 107 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [19 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weicheng-ma/cited-by/). 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