PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Raquel Fernández

Also known as Raquel Fernandez

Raquel Fernández studies how people use language in dialogue, and she also co-wrote work on multilingual language models. She is a full professor at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC). In 2007 she co-wrote a machine-learning study of non-sentential utterances in dialogue, and in 2019 she co-authored the PhotoBook dataset paper at ACL. The ELLIS Society elected her a Fellow in 2023, and EMNLP 2023 gave an outstanding paper award to a paper she co-wrote. She is on extended leave from ILLC to work as a research scientist at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre.

Works
173
Citations
2,542
h-index
23

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2007

    Classifying non-sentential utterances

    In 2007 she publishes, with Jonathan Ginzburg and Shalom Lappin, a machine learning approach to classifying non-sentential utterances in dialogue.

  2. 2019

    The PhotoBook dataset

    At ACL 2019 she co-authors The PhotoBook Dataset: Building Common Ground through Visually-Grounded Dialogue with five colleagues.

  3. 2023

    An ELLIS Society Fellowship

    The ELLIS Society elects her a Fellow in 2023, a highly selective distinction.

  4. 2023

    An outstanding EMNLP paper

    An outstanding paper award at EMNLP 2023 goes to Cross-Lingual Consistency of Factual Knowledge in Multilingual Language Models, which she co-wrote with Jirui Qi and Arianna Bisazza.

  5. February 2025

    Elected SIGDAT VP-Elect

    SIGDAT elects her as its 2025 VP-Elect in February 2025.

  6. Since April 2026

    Research at the Joint Research Centre

    In April 2026 she takes extended leave from her full professorship at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), to work as a research scientist at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre.

Sources and credits

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  1. Classifying Non-Sentential Utterances in Dialogue: A Machine Learning Approach - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. The PhotoBook Dataset: Building Common Ground through Visually-Grounded Dialogue - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Two distinguished ELLIS Amsterdam faculties elected as Fellows of the ELLIS Society – ELLIS Unit Amsterdam ivi.fnwi.uva.nl. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. Raquel Fernández | European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems ellis.eu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. Best Papers - EMNLP 2023 2023.emnlp.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. Website of Raquel Fernandez illc.uva.nl. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. ACL SIGDAT - SIGDAT sigdat.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  8. Dialogue Modelling Group dmg-illc.github.io. Checked 15 October 2026.