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Umar Baba Umar

Umar Baba Umar has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on Low-resource languages, Machine translation, Speech & spoken language; often with Abdulmalik Danlami Mohammed, Sulaimon Adebayo Bashir.

2 papers in our library · 2026

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 0 · 5 works · 0 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 1 time in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11718

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 Affiliations

🎓Federal University of Technology MinnaMinna · Nigeria2021–2026 · 3 paperscurrent

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 5The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksSignal Processing · 1 work

🧭 Topics 4Research subjects and languages the work is about.Low-resource languages · 2 worksEvaluation & benchmarks · 1 workMachine translation · 1 workSpeech & spoken language · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20262 papers

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Anchoring the Judge: Curriculum-Based Adaptation and Reference-Anchored MQM for LLM-Based Machine Translation of an Unseen Low-Resource Language - A Case of Nupe (2026 · 1 citation)
    The paper asks whether a decoder-only LLM can learn to translate a language it never saw in pre-training. The test case is Nupe, a Niger–Congo language with millions of speakers that is almost absent from benchmarks and web corpora. The authors propose NupeMT-QLoRA, which fine-tunes LLaMA-2 7B with QLoRA in two…
  2. Thesis Proposal: Self-Adaptive and Epistemic Uncertainty-Guided ASR of Dense Intra-Sentential Code-Switched Speech for African Low-Resource Languages (2026)
    Large multilingual speech models such as Whisper and MMS still struggle when African speakers alternate languages several times within one sentence.

 Co-authors here

2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

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