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Happy Buzaaba

Happy Buzaaba has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2025, most of them on Named entity recognition, Language models & pretraining, Evaluation & benchmarks; often with David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Israel Abebe Azime, Andiswa Bukula.

2 papers in our library · 2021–2025

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 7 · 30 works · 471 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 441 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Star rank #3364

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 Affiliations

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 Concepts, shelves and topics

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 Works by year

2020s

 Papers

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  1. MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages (2021 · 429 citations)
    African languages are largely missing from NLP resources, and NER in particular has had almost no public, human-annotated benchmarks for them.
  2. IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models (2025 · 69 citations)
    Large language models are usually tested in English and a few other well-resourced languages. When African languages are tested at all, it is mostly on simple classification, so we know little about how well models reason or recall knowledge in them. The authors built IrokoBench to fill this gap. Professional…

 Co-authors here

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Venues

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 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 441 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 38 citing papers with a page here →.

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