--- title: "Jibril Frej — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Jibril Frej, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2020), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jibril-frej/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jibril-frej/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jibril Frej # Jibril Frej Jibril Frej has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2020, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Didier Schwab](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/didier-schwab/), [Benoît Crabbé](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benoit-crabbe/), [Laurent Besacier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laurent-besacier/). 2 papers in our library · 2019–2020 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5005643082) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0631-0636) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130867739) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5005643082) · [58 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5005643082) · [399 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5005643082&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jibril-frej/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 245 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jibril-frej/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4172](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/42/#star-4172) 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=Jibril+Frej) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jibril+Frej) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jibril+Frej) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jibril+Frej) ## Affiliations [🎓**École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne** Lausanne · Switzerland 2023–2025 · 15 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ecole-polytechnique-federale-de-lausanne/) · [🔬**Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble** Grenoble · France 2017–2021 · 30 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/laboratoire-d-informatique-de-grenoble/) · [🎓**Université Grenoble Alpes** Saint-Martin-d'Hères · France 2017–2021 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-grenoble-alpes/) 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. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[French · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/french/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2020** 1 paper Jibril Frej's papers of 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/frej-2020-wikir-python-toolkit-building-large/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper Jibril Frej's papers of 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/le-2019-flaubert-unsupervised-language-model-pre/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[FlauBERT: Unsupervised Language Model Pre-training for French](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/le-2019-flaubert-unsupervised-language-model-pre/)** *(2019 · 297 citations)* Pre-trained contextual language models such as BERT have reshaped NLP. Most of the gains, however, were shown for English. French relied mainly on multilingual models (mBERT, XLM, XLM-R) and had no shared evaluation benchmark. The authors built FlauBERT, a monolingual French model that uses the BERT architecture and… 2. **[WIKIR: A Python Toolkit for Building a Large-scale Wikipedia-based English Information Retrieval Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/frej-2020-wikir-python-toolkit-building-large/)** *(2020 · 5 citations)* Neural ranking models for ad-hoc information retrieval need many more labelled queries than public English collections such as Robust04 or ClueWeb09 provide. ## 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. [**FlauBERT: Unsupervised Language Model Pre-training for French arXiv:1912.05372**Hang Le, Loïc Vial, Jibril Frej, et al.*2019 · 297 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/le-2019-flaubert-unsupervised-language-model-pre/) 2. **[WIKIR: A Python Toolkit for Building a Large-scale Wikipedia-based English Information Retrieval Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/frej-2020-wikir-python-toolkit-building-large/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Jibril Frej, Didier Schwab, Jean-Pierre Chevallet*2020 · 5 citations* 3. **[FlauBERT : des modèles de langue contextualisés pré-entraînés pour le français (FlauBERT : Unsupervised Language Model Pre-training for French) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.jeptalnrecital-taln.26/) Actes de la 6e conférence conjointe Journées d'Études sur la Parole (JEP, 33e édition), Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN, 27e édition), Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (RÉCITAL, 22e édition). Volume 2 : Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles · no summary yet**Hang Le et al.*2020 · 4 citations* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Didier Schwab](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/didier-schwab/) ×2 - [Benoît Crabbé](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benoit-crabbe/) - [Laurent Besacier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laurent-besacier/) - [Maximin Coavoux](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maximin-coavoux/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2020/) - Actes de la 6e conférence conjointe Journées d'Études sur la Parole (JEP, 33e édition), Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN, 27e édition), Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (RÉCITAL, 22e édition). Volume 2 : Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 245 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [23 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jibril-frej/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026