--- title: "Ndapa Nakashole — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Ndapa Nakashole, University of California San Diego: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 18 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ndapa-nakashole/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ndapa-nakashole/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ndapa Nakashole # Ndapa Nakashole Ndapa Nakashole 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/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5020042558) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5223-1394) · [**h-index 18**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5020042558) · [70 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5020042558) · [2,030 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5020042558&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ndapa-nakashole/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 168 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ndapa-nakashole/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11635](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/117/#star-11635) 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=Ndapa+Nakashole) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ndapa+Nakashole) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ndapa+Nakashole) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ndapa+Nakashole) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California San Diego** San Diego · United States 2017–2026 · 36 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-san-diego/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2014–2023 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🔬**Max Planck Institute for Informatics** Saarbrücken · Germany 2010–2013 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/max-planck-institute-for-informatics/) · [🔬**Max Planck Society** Munich · Germany 2009–2013 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/max-planck-society/) · [🎓**University of Cape Town** Rondebosch · South Africa 2007–2008 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cape-town/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 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.[Text generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ndapa-nakashole/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Grammar as Control: Modular Language Generation for the Long Tail](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nakashole-2026-grammar-as-control-modular-language/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* LLMs could help build language technology for underrepresented languages. Left unguided, though, they produce synthetic data that keeps repeating a few simple sentence patterns and misses much of a language's morphosyntax. Nakashole proposes a prompting approach called Modular Typology-Informed Generation (mTIG)… 2. **[Sentiment Analysis and Language Models for Kwanyama](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nakashole-2026-sentiment-analysis-language-models-kwanyama/)** *(2026)* Kwanyama is a Bantu language spoken by roughly 1.5 million people in northern Namibia and southern Angola. Before this work it had almost no computational resources: no embeddings, no pretrained models, and no labeled or raw corpora. The paper fills this gap with two openly released resources. ## All works 5 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. **[Rethinking Self-Attention: Towards Interpretability in Neural Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.65/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020 · no summary yet**Khalil Mrini et al.*2020 · 157 citations* 2. **[Fine-Grained Spoiler Detection from Large-Scale Review Corpora ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P19-1248/) Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Mengting Wan et al.*2019 · 137 citations* 3. **[NORMA: Neighborhood Sensitive Maps for Multilingual Word Embeddings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D18-1047/) Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Nakashole, Ndapa*2018 · 68 citations* 4. **[Grammar as Control: Modular Language Generation for the Long Tail](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nakashole-2026-grammar-as-control-modular-language/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Ndapa Nakashole*2026 · 1 citation* 5. **[Sentiment Analysis and Language Models for Kwanyama](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nakashole-2026-sentiment-analysis-language-models-kwanyama/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Ndapa Nakashole*2026* ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) ×2 - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2026/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 168 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [16 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ndapa-nakashole/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026