--- title: "Kosei Uemura · University of Toronto — author profile and papers" description: "Kosei Uemura, University of Toronto: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kosei-uemura/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kosei-uemura/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kosei Uemura # Kosei Uemura Kosei Uemura has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [David Ifeoluwa Adelani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/), [En-Shiun Annie Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/en-shiun-annie-lee/), [Jesujoba Alabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jesujoba-alabi/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5048282264) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5048282264) · [6 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5048282264) · [2 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5048282264&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kosei-uemura/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 4 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kosei-uemura/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10567](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/106/#star-10567) 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=Kosei+Uemura) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kosei+Uemura) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kosei+Uemura) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kosei+Uemura) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Toronto** Toronto · Canada 2024–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-toronto/) · [🔬**Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute** Montreal · Canada 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mila-quebec-artificial-intelligence-institute/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## 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).[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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kosei-uemura/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AfriMTEB and AfriE5: Benchmarking and Adapting Text Embedding Models for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/uemura-2026-afrimteb-afrie5-benchmarking-adapting-text/)** *(2026 · 4 citations)* Existing text-embedding benchmarks such as MMTEB cover African languages poorly. Some task types have no African data at all, and others include only one to three languages, so it is unclear how well embedding models serve the region. 2. **[MERLIN: Multi-Stage Curriculum Alignment for Multilingual Encoder-LLM Integration in Cross-Lingual Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/uemura-2026-merlin-multi-stage-curriculum-alignment/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Open LLMs reason well in English but perform poorly on maths and inference tasks in many low-resource languages. ## Co-authors here 4 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 - [En-Shiun Annie Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/en-shiun-annie-lee/) - [Jesujoba Alabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jesujoba-alabi/) - [Miaoran Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miaoran-zhang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/) ×2: [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) ×2 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 4 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [3 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kosei-uemura/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026