--- title: "Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad — author profile and papers" description: "Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point: 6 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2026), h-index 15 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad # Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad works on natural language processing for African languages, especially on building annotated resources where little labelled data exists. Their papers here centre on sentiment analysis of social-media text, named entity recognition, machine translation and speech recognition. The usual approach pairs new human-labelled datasets with baselines from fine-tuned multilingual models. Recurring concerns include code-mixed and noisy text, transfer between languages, and involving native speakers in creating data. The work sits mainly within [Low-resource languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) and [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/). The most cited paper is [Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nekoto-2020-participatory-research-low-resourced-machine/) (2020). It is a case study carried out through the Masakhane community. It argues that the translation gap for African languages stems from historical and social inequities, not only from missing data. It proposes that speakers themselves build datasets, train systems and judge the output. MasakhaNER 2.0 (2022) extended a human-annotated news corpus for entity recognition to a wide range of Sub-Saharan languages. It also examined which source languages best support cross-lingual transfer. [NaijaSenti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/muhammad-2022-naijasenti-nigerian-twitter-sentiment-corpus/) (2022) gathered large numbers of tweets, many of them code-mixed, and had people label their sentiment in four Nigerian languages, among them Hausa and Nigerian Pidgin. AfriSenti (2023) widened that effort into a benchmark spanning several African language families. More recent papers turn toward speech and explainability. Whispering in Amharic (2025) adapts a small Whisper checkpoint to Amharic, training on combinations of public speech corpora that include a noisy collection. [SAINT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yimam-2026-saint-multilingual-span-level-interpretability/) (2026) offers sentiment data in four languages, Amharic and Hausa among them, with word-level annotations. It is used to compare which tokens fine-tuned encoders and prompted large language models rely on. Muhammad is based at [Imperial College London](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/imperial-college-london/), holding an advanced research fellowship in computer science from 2024. Muhammad is also at [Bayero University Kano](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bayero-university-kano/), where papers are bylined from 2017 onward. Between 2020 and 2023 the work was carried out at [Universidade do Porto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidade-do-porto/) and [INESC TEC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/inesc-tec/). Frequent collaborators include [David Ifeoluwa Adelani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/), [Sebastian Ruder](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-ruder/) and [Seid Muhie Yimam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seid-muhie-yimam/). Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad has 6 papers in our library, in 2020–2026, most of them on [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Low-resource languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [David Ifeoluwa Adelani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/), [Sebastian Ruder](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-ruder/), [Abinew Ali Ayele](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abinew-ali-ayele/). 6 papers in our library · 2020–2026 current affiliation [University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point](https://ror.org/05sv6pg41) · Stevens Point United States; [Imperial Valley College](https://ror.org/039kas258) · Imperial United States; [Imperial College London](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/imperial-college-london/) · London United Kingdom; [Bahir Dar University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bahir-dar-university/) · Bahir Dar Ethiopia; [Bayero University Kano](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bayero-university-kano/) · Kano Nigeria [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5002849148) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7708-0799) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5002849148) · [103 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5002849148) · [2,129 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5002849148&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [6 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad/#papers) · [1,417 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad/cited-by/) · 8 more works in our library · [⭐ Paper Star rank #2368](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/24/#star-2368) 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=Shamsuddeen+Hassan+Muhammad) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shamsuddeen+Hassan+Muhammad) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shamsuddeen+Hassan+Muhammad) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shamsuddeen+Hassan+Muhammad) ## Affiliations [🎓**Imperial College London** London · United Kingdom 2024–2026 · 34 papers*current**employment from 2024: Advanced Research fello, Computer Science (ORCID)*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/imperial-college-london/) · [🎓**Bayero University Kano** Kano · Nigeria 2017–2026 · 26 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bayero-university-kano/) · [🎓**University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point** Stevens Point · United States 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://ror.org/05sv6pg41) · [🎓**Bahir Dar University** Bahir Dar · Ethiopia 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bahir-dar-university/) · [🎓**Imperial Valley College** Imperial · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/039kas258) · [🎓**Universidade do Porto** Porto · Portugal 2020–2023 · 21 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universidade-do-porto/) · [🔬**INESC TEC** Porto · Portugal 2020–2023 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/inesc-tec/) · [🏥**Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital** Kano · Nigeria 2017–2022 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/05wqbqy84) 🏛️**Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências** Porto · Portugal 2018*education from 2018: DhD, Computer Science (ORCID)* 🏛️**University of Manchester School of Computer Science** Manchester · United Kingdom 2012–2013*education 2012–2013: MSc, Department of Computer Science (ORCID)* From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Sentiment & emotion 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Low-resource languages 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Semitic languages 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Named entity recognition 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Machine translation 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Interpretability 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yimam-2026-saint-multilingual-span-level-interpretability/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gete-2025-whispering-amharic-fine-tuning-whisper/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/muhammad-2023-afrisenti-twitter-sentiment-analysis-benchmark/) · [**2022** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad/year/2022/) · [**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. **[MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2022-masakhaner-2-0-africa-centric/)** *(2022 · 150 citations)* African languages have over a billion speakers but very few annotated NER resources, and it is unclear which source language to use when transferring models across languages. 3. **[AfriSenti: A Twitter Sentiment Analysis Benchmark for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/muhammad-2023-afrisenti-twitter-sentiment-analysis-benchmark/)** *(2023 · 143 citations)* NLP research on African languages is scarce, largely because labelled data is lacking. This is especially true for sentiment in noisy social-media text, where code-switching, tone and multiple scripts complicate analysis. The authors address this gap with AfriSenti, a Twitter benchmark covering 14 African languages… 4. **[NaijaSenti: A Nigerian Twitter Sentiment Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/muhammad-2022-naijasenti-nigerian-twitter-sentiment-corpus/)** *(2022 · 127 citations)* Sentiment analysis tools are mostly built for data-rich languages, so Nigerian languages have had little support. 5. **[Whispering in Amharic: Fine-tuning Whisper for Low-resource Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gete-2025-whispering-amharic-fine-tuning-whisper/)** *(2025 · 2 citations)* Whisper performs poorly on Amharic because the language makes up only a tiny part of its multilingual training data. 6. **[SAINT: Multilingual Span-Level Interpretability for Sentiment Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yimam-2026-saint-multilingual-span-level-interpretability/)** *(2026)* Sentiment classifiers are widely deployed, but their decisions are rarely checked for explainability, especially in under-resourced languages. ## Also in our library 8 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 12 of 25 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [David Ifeoluwa Adelani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/) ×3 - [Sebastian Ruder](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-ruder/) ×3 - [Abinew Ali Ayele](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abinew-ali-ayele/) ×2 - [Ibrahim Sa'id Ahmad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ibrahim-sa-id-ahmad/) ×2 - [Idris Abdulmumin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/idris-abdulmumin/) ×2 - [Martin Semmann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martin-semmann/) ×2 - [Pavel Brazdil](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pavel-brazdil/) ×2 - [Robert Geislinger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-geislinger/) ×2 - [Seid Muhie Yimam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seid-muhie-yimam/) ×2 - [Sukairaj Hafiz Imam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sukairaj-hafiz-imam/) ×2 - [Tadesse Destaw Belay](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tadesse-destaw-belay/) ×2 - [Alípio Jorge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alipio-jorge/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,417 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [79 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad/cited-by/).