--- title: "Happy Buzaaba — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Happy Buzaaba, Princeton University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2025), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/happy-buzaaba/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/happy-buzaaba/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Happy Buzaaba # Happy Buzaaba Happy Buzaaba has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2025, 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/), [Israel Abebe Azime](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/israel-abebe-azime/), [Andiswa Bukula](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andiswa-bukula/). 2 papers in our library · 2021–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5029705069) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7985-3396) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5029705069) · [30 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029705069) · [471 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029705069&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/happy-buzaaba/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 441 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/happy-buzaaba/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3364](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/34/#star-3364) 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=Happy+Buzaaba) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Happy+Buzaaba) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Happy+Buzaaba) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Happy+Buzaaba) ## Affiliations [🎓**Princeton University** Princeton · United States 2024–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/princeton-university/) · [🔬**RIKEN** Wako · Japan 2022–2025 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/riken/) · [🎓**University of Tsukuba** Tsukuba · Japan 2019–2021 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-tsukuba/) · [🔬**RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project** Tokyo · Japan 2022–2023 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/riken-center-for-advanced-intelligence-project/) 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/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/named-entity-recognition/) ## 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/) · [**2021** 1 paper MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2021-masakhaner-named-entity-recognition-african/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2021-masakhaner-named-entity-recognition-african/)** *(2021 · 429 citations)* African languages are largely missing from NLP resources, and NER in particular has had almost no public, human-annotated benchmarks for them. 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… ## Co-authors here 12 of 16 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 - [Israel Abebe Azime](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/israel-abebe-azime/) ×2 - [Andiswa Bukula](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andiswa-bukula/) - [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/) - [Daniel D'souza](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-d-souza/) - [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/) - [Jesujoba Alabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jesujoba-alabi/) - [Julia Kreutzer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julia-kreutzer/) - [Millicent Ochieng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/millicent-ochieng/) - [Sara Hooker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sara-hooker/) ## 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/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2021/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 441 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [38 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/happy-buzaaba/cited-by/). 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