--- title: "Tegawende Bissyande — author profile and papers" description: "Tegawende Bissyande, University of Luxembourg: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 49 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tegawende-bissyande/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tegawende-bissyande/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tegawende Bissyande # Tegawende Bissyande Tegawende Bissyande has 3 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Low-resource languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Jacques Klein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacques-klein/), [Yewei Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yewei-song/), [Saad Ezzini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saad-ezzini/). 3 papers in our library · 2026 current affiliation [University of Luxembourg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-luxembourg/), Luxembourg, Luxembourg; [Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust](https://ror.org/02qav7c04), Belval, Luxembourg [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5082835974) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7270-9869) · [**h-index 49**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5082835974) · [489 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082835974) · [9 351 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082835974&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tegawende-bissyande/#papers) · [52 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tegawende-bissyande/cited-by/) · 11 more works in our library · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4972](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/50/#star-4972) 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=Tegawende+Bissyande) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tegawende+Bissyande) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tegawende+Bissyande) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tegawende+Bissyande) ## Affiliations - [University of Luxembourg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-luxembourg/) · Luxembourg, Luxembourg —current · 2013–2026 on 329 papers - [Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust](https://ror.org/02qav7c04) · Belval, Luxembourg —current · 2013–2026 on 129 papers - [Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique](https://ror.org/03adqg323) · Talence, France —2010–2025 on 26 papers - [Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo](https://ror.org/00t5e2y66) · Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso —2015–2025 on 25 papers - [Beihang University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beihang-university/) · Beijing, China —2023–2024 on 2 papers - [Joseph Ayo Babalola University](https://ror.org/04t9p4363) · Akure, Nigeria —2020 on 2 papers - [Université de Bordeaux](https://ror.org/057qpr032) · Bordeaux, France —2010–2014 on 11 papers - [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique/) · Paris, France —2011–2014 on 3 papers - [Université Bordeaux-I](https://ror.org/001anga17) · Talence —2010–2013 on 3 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Machine translation 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Low-resource languages 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Speech & spoken language 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tegawende-bissyande/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Are Small Language Models the Silver Bullet to Low-Resource Languages Machine Translation?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/song-2026-are-small-language-models-silver/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* The paper examines whether compact language models can translate low-resource languages (LRLs) reliably. Such models are attractive where cost, latency, privacy or offline use matter, but they often hallucinate on underrepresented languages. The authors first benchmark several small decoder-only models (Llama-3.x… 2. **[Contributing to Speech-to-Speech Translation for African Low-Resource Languages : Study of French-Mooré Pair](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ouedraogo-2026-contributing-speech-speech-translation-african/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Mooré is Burkina Faso's most widely used local language, the primary language of about 52.9% of the population. 3. **[Evaluation Drift in LLM Personality Induction: Are We Moving the Goalpost?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rajput-2026-evaluation-drift-llm-personality-induction/)** *(2026)* This LREC 2026 paper asks whether LLMs can be given a stable, human-like Big Five personality. It also criticizes the common practice of scoring each OCEAN trait separately, where random guessing already reaches 50%. The authors fine-tune five models on the Essays Dataset (Pennebaker and King, 1999), in which every… ## Also in our library 11 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jacques Klein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacques-klein/) ×2 - [Yewei Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yewei-song/) ×2 - [Saad Ezzini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saad-ezzini/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 52 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tegawende-bissyande/cited-by/).