--- title: "Vukosi Marivate — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Vukosi Marivate, University of Pretoria: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2026), h-index 17 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vukosi-marivate/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vukosi-marivate/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Vukosi Marivate # Vukosi Marivate Vukosi Marivate has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2026, 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/); often with [Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad/), [Atnafu Lambebo Tonja](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atnafu-lambebo-tonja/), [Catherine Arnett](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/catherine-arnett/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5060690192) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6731-6267) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62053845) · [**h-index 17**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5060690192) · [202 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5060690192) · [1,417 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5060690192&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vukosi-marivate/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 348 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vukosi-marivate/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4693](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/47/#star-4693) 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=Vukosi+Marivate) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Vukosi+Marivate) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Vukosi+Marivate) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Vukosi+Marivate) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Pretoria** Pretoria · South Africa 2018–2026 · 137 papersEmployment since 2018 · ABSA UP Chair of Data Science - Full Professor, Department of Computer ScienceEmployment since 2018 · ABSA Chair of Data Science, Assoc. Professor Data Science for Social Impact Research Group, Department of Computer Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pretoria/) · [🏛️**Council for Scientific and Industrial Research** Pretoria · South Africa 2015–2023 · 25 papersEmployment 2015–2018 · Senior Data Scientist, Modelling and Digital Science](https://ror.org/05j00sr48) · [🏛️**Council of Scientific and Industrial Research** New Delhi · India 2015–2023 · 13 papers](https://ror.org/021wm7p51) · [🎓**University of the Witwatersrand** Johannesburg · South Africa 2004–2017 · 5 papersEducation 2004–2007 · BSc, Electrical EngineeringEducation 2008–2009 · MSc, Electrical Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-the-witwatersrand/) · [🎓**North-West University** Potchefstroom · South Africa 2024 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/north-west-university/) · [🎓**Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey** New Brunswick · United States 2011–2013 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rutgers-the-state-university-of-new-jersey/) · [🎓**The University of Sydney** Sydney · Australia 2022–2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-sydney/) 🏛️**Lelapa AI** Johannesbug · [South Africa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/south-africa/) 2022Employment since 2022 · Co-Founder 🏛️**Rutgers University New Brunswick** New Brunswick · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2009–2015Education 2009–2015 · PhD, Computer Science 🏛️**Rutgers University–New Brunswick** New Jersey · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2009–2015Education 2009–2015 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 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 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Low-resource languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vukosi-marivate/year/2026/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vukosi-marivate/year/2020/) ## 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 · 339 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. **[CommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/suarez-2026-commonlid-re-evaluating-state-art/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* Language identification (LID) is often treated as a solved task. In practice, it remains unreliable for many languages on noisy, mixed web text, which is the main source of multilingual pre-training corpora. Most existing benchmarks, such as FLORES, UDHR and Bible data, are clean, translated or religious, so they… ## All works 4 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. **[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/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Wilhelmina Nekoto, Vukosi Marivate, Tshinondiwa Matsila, et al.*2020 · 339 citations* 2. **[Findings of the WMT'22 Shared Task on Large-Scale Machine Translation Evaluation for African Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.wmt-1.72/) Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT) · no summary yet**David Ifeoluwa Adelani et al.*2022 · 13 citations* 3. **[HausaNLP: Current Status, Challenges and Future Directions for Hausa Natural Language Processing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.27/) Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on African Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP 2025) · no summary yet**Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad et al.*2025 · 6 citations* 4. **[CommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/suarez-2026-commonlid-re-evaluating-state-art/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Laurie Burchell, Catherine Arnett, et al.*2026 · 3 citations* ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shamsuddeen-hassan-muhammad/) ×2 - [Atnafu Lambebo Tonja](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atnafu-lambebo-tonja/) - [Catherine Arnett](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/catherine-arnett/) - [Freshia Sackey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/freshia-sackey/) - [Idris Abdulmumin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/idris-abdulmumin/) - [Laurie Burchell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laurie-burchell/) - [Malte Ostendorff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/malte-ostendorff/) - [Pedro Ortiz Suarez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pedro-ortiz-suarez/) - [Salomey Osei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salomey-osei/) ## 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/): [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/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2020/) - [Northern European Journal of Language Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/northern-european-journal-of-language-technology/) - Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT) - Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on African Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP 2025) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 348 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [63 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vukosi-marivate/cited-by/). 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