--- title: "Andiswa Bukula — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Andiswa Bukula, Pennsylvania State University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2025), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andiswa-bukula/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andiswa-bukula/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Andiswa Bukula # Andiswa Bukula Andiswa Bukula has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2025, most of them on [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [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 [David Ifeoluwa Adelani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/), [Jesujoba Alabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jesujoba-alabi/), [Chester Palen-Michel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chester-palen-michel/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5004241641) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6667-4599) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5004241641) · [28 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004241641) · [153 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004241641&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andiswa-bukula/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 304 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andiswa-bukula/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4572](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/46/#star-4572) 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=Andiswa+Bukula) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Andiswa+Bukula) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Andiswa+Bukula) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Andiswa+Bukula) ## Affiliations [🎓**Pennsylvania State University** State College · United States 2025–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/pennsylvania-state-university/) · [🎓**North-West University** Potchefstroom · South Africa 2022–2025 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/north-west-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2025-irokobench-new-benchmark-african-languages/) · [**2022** 1 paper MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2022-masakhaner-2-0-africa-centric/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2022-masakhaner-2-0-africa-centric/)** *(2022 · 150 citations)* African languages have over a billion speakers but very few annotated NER resources, and it is unclear which source language to use when transferring models across languages. 2. **[IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2025-irokobench-new-benchmark-african-languages/)** *(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… ## All works 3 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. **[MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2022-masakhaner-2-0-africa-centric/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Graham Neubig, Sebastian Ruder, et al.*2022 · 150 citations* 2. **[IrokoBench: A New Benchmark for African Languages in the Age of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2025-irokobench-new-benchmark-african-languages/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jessica Ojo, Israel Abebe Azime, et al.*2025 · 69 citations* 3. **[AfriMTE and AfriCOMET: Enhancing COMET to Embrace Under-resourced African Languages](https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-long.334/) Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) · original ↗ · no summary yet**Jiayi Wang et al.*2024 · 39 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 of 15 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [David Ifeoluwa Adelani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/) ×2 - [Jesujoba Alabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jesujoba-alabi/) ×2 - [Chester Palen-Michel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chester-palen-michel/) - [Constantine Lignos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/constantine-lignos/) - [En-Shiun Annie Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/en-shiun-annie-lee/) - [Graham Neubig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/graham-neubig/) - [Happy Buzaaba](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/happy-buzaaba/) - [Israel Abebe Azime](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/israel-abebe-azime/) - [Millicent Ochieng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/millicent-ochieng/) - [Peter Nabende](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-nabende/) - [Sara Hooker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sara-hooker/) - [Sebastian Ruder](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-ruder/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/) ×2: [NAACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2025/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2022/) - Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 304 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [24 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andiswa-bukula/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026