--- title: "Chibuzor Okocha — author profile and papers · English" description: "Chibuzor Okocha, University of Florida: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chibuzor-okocha/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chibuzor-okocha/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Chibuzor Okocha # Chibuzor Okocha Chibuzor Okocha has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Christan Grant](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christan-grant/), [Emmanuel Ayodele](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emmanuel-ayodele/), [Folafunmi Omofoye](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/folafunmi-omofoye/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5116188179) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5411-160X) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132565748) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5116188179) · [21 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5116188179) · [7 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5116188179&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chibuzor-okocha/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 8 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chibuzor-okocha/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10976](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/110/#star-10976) 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=Chibuzor+Okocha) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Chibuzor+Okocha) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Chibuzor+Okocha) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Chibuzor+Okocha) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Florida** Gainesville · United States 2023–2027 · 19 papersEducation 2023–2027 · PhD, Computer ScienceEmployment 2023–2027 · Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-florida/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Signal Processing · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) 🧭 Topics 6 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [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/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chibuzor-okocha/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chibuzor-okocha/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Afrispeech-Dialog: A Benchmark Dataset for Spontaneous English Conversations in Healthcare and Beyond](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sanni-2025-afrispeech-dialog-benchmark-dataset-spontaneous/)** *(2025 · 11 citations)* Speech systems are now common in clinics and call centers, but little is known about how they handle African-accented English in long, spontaneous dialogue. 2. **[Afrispeech Semantics: Evaluating Audio–Semantic Reasoning in Spoken Language Models Across Domains and Accents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/okocha-2026-afrispeech-semantics-evaluating-audio-semantic/)** *(2026)* Audio language models (ALMs) are usually benchmarked on transcription, captioning, retrieval or QA. These tests reveal little about whether a model draws conclusions strictly from what it hears. The authors build a multi-task benchmark on African-accented English speech. It probes five audio-grounded reasoning… 3. **[Domain-Aware Speaker Diarization On African-Accented English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/okocha-2025-domain-aware-speaker-diarization-african/)** *(2025)* The paper asks whether speaker diarization ("who spoke when") performs worse on African-accented English in a clinical setting than in everyday talk, and why. ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Christan Grant](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christan-grant/) ×2 - [Emmanuel Ayodele](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emmanuel-ayodele/) - [Folafunmi Omofoye](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/folafunmi-omofoye/) - [Mardhiyah Sanni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mardhiyah-sanni/) - [Michael Samwel Mollel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-samwel-mollel/) - [Moshood O. Yekini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moshood-o-yekini/) - [Naome A Etori](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/naome-a-etori/) - [Tassallah Abdullahi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tassallah-abdullahi/) - [Tobi Olatunji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tobi-olatunji/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 8 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chibuzor-okocha/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026