Raquel Fernández

Researcher, European Commission

Full Professor, University of Amsterdam

Joined

July 2019

Names

Raquel Fernández

Emails

****@uva.nl (Confirmed)

****@ec.europa.eu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

European Commission (ec.europa.eu)

2026 – Present

Full Professor

University of Amsterdam (uva.nl)

2022 – Present

Associate Professor

University of Amsterdam (uva.nl)

2009 – 2022

Postdoc

Stanford University (stanford.edu)

2007 – 2008

Postdoc

University of Potsdam (uni-potsdam.de)

2005 – 2007

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Jonathan Ginzburg

2001 – 2006

Expertise

psycholinguistics

Present

semantics

Present

pragmatics

Present

dialogue

Present

vision and language

Present

Publications

Optimizing Language Models for Crosslingual Knowledge Consistency
Tianyu Liu, Jirui Qi, Mrinmaya Sachan, Ryan Cotterell, Raquel Fernández, Arianna Bisazza
- ICLR 2026 Re-Align Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
Movie Facts and Fibs (MF$^2$): A Benchmark for Long Movie Understanding
Emmanouil Zaranis, António Farinhas, Saul Santos, Beatriz Canaverde, Miguel Moura Ramos, Wafaa Mohammed, Giuseppe Attanasio, Chrysoula Zerva, Nithin Sivakumaran, Shoubin Yu, Elena Bueno-Benito, Aditya K Surikuchi, Ben Peters, Danae Sanchez Villegas, Andre G. Viveiros, Pavlo Vasylenko, Baohao Liao, Sonal Sannigrahi, Jaehong Yoon, Elias Stengel-Eskin et al. (11 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Workshop MM Intelligence Poster
- Readers: Everyone
When Models Reason in Your Language: Controlling Thinking Trace Language Comes at the Cost of Accuracy
Jirui Qi, Shan Chen, Zidi Xiong, Raquel Fernández, Danielle Bitterman, Arianna Bisazza
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
On the Consistency of Multilingual Context Utilization in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Jirui Qi, Raquel Fernández
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Movie Facts and Fibs (MF$^2$): A Benchmark for Long Movie Understanding
Emmanouil Zaranis, António Farinhas, Saul Santos, Beatriz Canaverde, Miguel Moura Ramos, Aditya K Surikuchi, André Guilherme Nunes Viveiros, Baohao Liao, Elena Bueno-Benito, Nithin Sivakumaran, Pavlo Vasylenko, Shoubin Yu, Sonal Sannigrahi, Wafaa Mohammed, Ben Peters, Danae Sanchez Villegas, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Giuseppe Attanasio, Jaehong Yoon, Stella Frank et al. (11 additional authors not shown)
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Optimizing Language Models for Crosslingual Knowledge Consistency
Tianyu Liu, Jirui Qi, Mrinmaya Sachan, Ryan Cotterell, Raquel Fernández, Arianna Bisazza
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Experiential Semantic Information and Brain Alignment: Are Multimodal Models Better than Language Models?
Anna Bavaresco, Raquel Fernández
- CoNLL 2025
- Readers: Everyone
MBBQ: A Dataset for Cross-Lingual Comparison of Stereotypes in Generative LLMs
Vera Neplenbroek, Arianna Bisazza, Raquel Fernández
- COLM
- Readers: Everyone
Describing Images Fast and Slow: Quantifying and Predicting the Variation in Human Signals during Visuo-Linguistic Processes
Ece Takmaz, Sandro Pezzelle, Raquel Fernández
- Published: 01 Jan 2024, Last Modified: 23 Mar 2024
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Asking the Right Question at the Right Time: Human and Model Uncertainty Guidance to Ask Clarification Questions
Alberto Testoni, Raquel Fernández
- Published: 01 Jan 2024, Last Modified: 23 Mar 2024
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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