🧑‍🔬 Vukosi Marivate

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓University of PretoriaPretoria · South Africa2018–2026 · 137 papersEmployment since 2018 · ABSA UP Chair of Data Science - Full Professor, Department of Computer ScienceEmployment since 2018 · ABSA Chair of Data Science, Assoc. Professor Data Science for Social Impact Research Group, Department of Computer Sciencecurrent🏛️Council for Scientific and Industrial ResearchPretoria · South Africa2015–2023 · 25 papersEmployment 2015–2018 · Senior Data Scientist, Modelling and Digital Science🏛️Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchNew Delhi · India2015–2023 · 13 papers🎓University of the WitwatersrandJohannesburg · South Africa2004–2017 · 5 papersEducation 2004–2007 · BSc, Electrical EngineeringEducation 2008–2009 · MSc, Electrical Engineering🎓North-West UniversityPotchefstroom · South Africa2024 · 3 papers🎓Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyNew Brunswick · United States2011–2013 · 3 papers🎓The University of SydneySydney · Australia2022–2023 · 2 papers

🏛️Lelapa AIJohannesbug · South Africa2022Employment since 2022 · Co-Founder

🏛️Rutgers University New BrunswickNew Brunswick · United States2009–2015Education 2009–2015 · PhD, Computer Science

🏛️Rutgers University–New BrunswickNew Jersey · United States2009–2015Education 2009–2015

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.

📅 Works by year

2020s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages (2020 · 339 citations)
   Machine translation still serves mainly a handful of well-resourced languages. The authors argue that the gap for African languages reflects social and historical inequities as well as a shortage of data, so MT researchers cannot close it alone. They map the MT pipeline onto roles (content creators, translators…
2. CommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web Data (2026 · 3 citations)
   Language identification (LID) is often treated as a solved task. In practice, it remains unreliable for many languages on noisy, mixed web text, which is the main source of multilingual pre-training corpora. Most existing benchmarks, such as FLORES, UDHR and Bible data, are clean, translated or religious, so they…

All works

4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African LanguagesFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsWilhelmina Nekoto, Vukosi Marivate, Tshinondiwa Matsila, et al.2020 · 339 citations
2. Findings of the WMT'22 Shared Task on Large-Scale Machine Translation Evaluation for African Languages ↗Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT) · no summary yetDavid Ifeoluwa Adelani et al.2022 · 13 citations
3. HausaNLP: Current Status, Challenges and Future Directions for Hausa Natural Language Processing ↗Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on African Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP 2025) · no summary yetShamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad et al.2025 · 6 citations
4. CommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web DataAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Laurie Burchell, Catherine Arnett, et al.2026 · 3 citations

🤝 Co-authors here

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

• Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad ×2
• Atnafu Lambebo Tonja
• Catherine Arnett
• Freshia Sackey
• Idris Abdulmumin
• Laurie Burchell
• Malte Ostendorff
• Pedro Ortiz Suarez
• Salomey Osei

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): ACL 2026
• Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
• Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020
• Northern European Journal of Language Technology
• Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)
• Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on African Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP 2025)

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 348 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 63 citing papers with a page here →.

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