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# Makerere University

University [Kampala](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/kampala/), [Uganda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/uganda/)in the agglomeration of [Kampala](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/kampala/)

- [Website](https://mak.ac.ug)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/03dmz0111)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I72227227)

[**4** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/makerere-university/#works) · [**1** person with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/makerere-university/#authors) · [**735** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/makerere-university/#works) · [**381** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/makerere-university/#works)

## People (1)

Authors with a page here who worked or studied at Makerere University: first those whose cited work was done most here; beside each, their citations.

### Core (1)

Confirmed by their records, or by their bylines here with a fair part of their work.

- [Peter Nabende](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-nabende/) — current · 2008–2026 on 44 papers · 2 papers here · 305 citations

## Works in our library (4)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

- [MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2021-masakhaner-named-entity-recognition-african/) — David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jade Abbott, Graham Neubig, et al. · 2021 · 429 citations
- [A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2022-few-thousand-translations-go-long/) — David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jesujoba Oluwadara Alabi, Angela Fan, et al. · 2022 · 155 citations
- [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/) — David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Graham Neubig, Sebastian Ruder, et al. · 2022 · 150 citations
- [SALT-31: A Machine Translation Benchmark Dataset for 31 Ugandan Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nsumba-2026-salt-31-machine-translation-benchmark/) — Solomon Nsumba, Benjamin Akera, Evelyn Nafula Ouma, et al. · 2026 · 1 citation

## Topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Named entity recognition (2)](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/)

## Fields

[Natural language processing (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/machine-translation/)

## Collaborates with

Institutions on the bylines of the same works here; the number is the works they share.

[Google 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) [Carnegie Mellon University 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) [Technical University of Munich 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technical-university-of-munich/) [Saarland University 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/saarland-university/) [Constructor University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/constructor-university/) [University of Waterloo 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/) [Uppsala University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/uppsala-university/) [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences/) [Brandeis University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brandeis-university/) [Lancaster University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/lancaster-university/) [University of Ibadan 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-ibadan/) [INESC TEC 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/inesc-tec/)

Works and people from the bylines of the papers (OpenAlex): a person listed here worked or studied at Makerere University; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.