--- title: "Xiaomeng Ma — author profile and papers · Morphology" description: "Xiaomeng Ma, Dongguan University of Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaomeng-ma/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaomeng-ma/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xiaomeng Ma # Xiaomeng Ma Xiaomeng Ma has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, most of them on [Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Lingyu Gao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lingyu-gao/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100938617) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100938617) · [16 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100938617) · [104 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100938617&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaomeng-ma/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 15 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaomeng-ma/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9161](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/92/#star-9161) 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=Xiaomeng+Ma) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xiaomeng+Ma) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xiaomeng+Ma) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xiaomeng+Ma) ## Affiliations [🎓**Dongguan University of Technology** Dongguan · China 2025–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/01m8p7q42) · [🎓**The Graduate Center, CUNY** New York · United States 2022–2023 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-graduate-center-cuny/) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2022–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🔬**Institute of Modern Physics** Lanzhou · China 2022–2025 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03x8rhq63) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 7 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Morphology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaomeng-ma/year/2023/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaomeng-ma/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ToMChallenges: A Principle-Guided Dataset and Diverse Evaluation Tasks for Exploring Theory of Mind](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2023-tomchallenges-principle-guided-dataset-diverse/)** *(2023 · 17 citations)* Studies disagree on whether large language models have Theory of Mind (ToM). The authors argue that much of this disagreement comes from inconsistent and sometimes invalid testing. Earlier work used a few examples in a single prompt format, or used tasks that tap empathy or social attribution rather than ToM. Drawing… 2. **[How do we get there? Evaluating transformer neural networks as cognitive models for English past tense inflection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2022-how-do-we-get-there/)** *(2022 · 2 citations)* The paper asks whether a transformer learns the English past tense as symbolic categories (regular or irregular, and a suffix rule) or as pattern association. ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Lingyu Gao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lingyu-gao/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/aacl/): [AACL 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/aacl/2022/) - [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/): [CoNLL 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 15 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [3 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaomeng-ma/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026