--- title: "Freshia Sackey — author profile and papers" description: "Freshia Sackey, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2022), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/freshia-sackey/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/freshia-sackey/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Freshia Sackey # Freshia Sackey Freshia Sackey has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2022, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Low-resource languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/); often with [Angela Fan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/angela-fan/), [David Ifeoluwa Adelani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/), [Dietrich Klakow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dietrich-klakow/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2022 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5083467612) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5083467612) · [5 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5083467612) · [61 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5083467612&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/freshia-sackey/#papers) · [🔗 259 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/freshia-sackey/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #2979](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/30/#star-2979) 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=Freshia+Sackey) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Freshia+Sackey) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Freshia+Sackey) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Freshia+Sackey) ## Affiliations [🎓**Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology** Nairobi · Kenya 2022 · 3 papers*current*](https://ror.org/015h5sy57) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Topics [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Low-resource languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2022-few-thousand-translations-go-long/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nekoto-2020-participatory-research-low-resourced-machine/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nekoto-2020-participatory-research-low-resourced-machine/)** *(2020 · 333 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. **[A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2022-few-thousand-translations-go-long/)** *(2022 · 155 citations)* Large multilingual translation models are trained mostly on web-crawled text, so many African languages with millions of speakers are absent or barely represented. ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Angela Fan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/angela-fan/) - [David Ifeoluwa Adelani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/) - [Dietrich Klakow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dietrich-klakow/) - [Ernie Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ernie-chang/) - [Jesujoba Alabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jesujoba-alabi/) - [Julia Kreutzer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julia-kreutzer/) - [Machel Reid](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/machel-reid/) - [Peter Nabende](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-nabende/) - [Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad/) - [Tajuddeen Gwadabe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tajuddeen-gwadabe/) - [Xiaoyu Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaoyu-shen/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 259 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [23 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/freshia-sackey/cited-by/).