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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"><head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <title>Rachel Rudinger</title> <meta name="generator" content="Jekyll v3.9.3" /> <meta property="og:title" content="Rachel Rudinger" /> <meta property="og:locale" content="en_US" /> <link rel="canonical" href="/" /> <meta property="og:url" content="/" /> <meta property="og:site_name" content="Rachel Rudinger" /> <meta property="og:type" content="website" /> <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary" /> <meta property="twitter:title" content="Rachel Rudinger" /> <script type="application/ld+json"> {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebSite","headline":"Rachel Rudinger","name":"Rachel Rudinger","url":"/"}</script>  <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/main.css"><link type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" href="/feed.xml" title="Rachel Rudinger" /></head> <body><header class="site-header" role="banner"> <div class="wrapper"><a class="site-title" rel="author" href="/">Rachel Rudinger</a><nav class="site-nav"> <input type="checkbox" id="nav-trigger" class="nav-trigger" /> <label for="nav-trigger"> <span class="menu-icon"> <svg viewBox="0 0 18 15" width="18px" height="15px"> <path d="M18,1.484c0,0.82-0.665,1.484-1.484,1.484H1.484C0.665,2.969,0,2.304,0,1.484l0,0C0,0.665,0.665,0,1.484,0 h15.032C17.335,0,18,0.665,18,1.484L18,1.484z M18,7.516C18,8.335,17.335,9,16.516,9H1.484C0.665,9,0,8.335,0,7.516l0,0 c0-0.82,0.665-1.484,1.484-1.484h15.032C17.335,6.031,18,6.696,18,7.516L18,7.516z M18,13.516C18,14.335,17.335,15,16.516,15H1.484 C0.665,15,0,14.335,0,13.516l0,0c0-0.82,0.665-1.483,1.484-1.483h15.032C17.335,12.031,18,12.695,18,13.516L18,13.516z"/> </svg> </span> </label> <div class="trigger"><a class="page-link" href="/publications.html">Publications</a></div> </nav></div> </header> <main class="page-content" aria-label="Content"> <div class="wrapper"> <p><img src="assets/images/rr.jpg" alt="Drawing" style="width: 200px;" /></p> <p>I am an Assistant Professor in <a href="https://www.cs.umd.edu/">Computer Science</a> at the University of Maryland, College Park. I also hold appointments in <a href="https://www.umiacs.umd.edu/">UMIACS</a> and <a href="https://linguistics.umd.edu/">Linguistics</a> at UMD.</p> <p>My research focuses on problems in natural language understanding, including knowledge acquisition, commonsense reasoning, an semantic representation. I am also interested in problems of bias and fairness in NLP, and in particular how commonsense reasoning can both lead to and help overcome social overgeneralization in NLP systems.</p> </div> </main><footer class="site-footer"> <div class="wrapper"> <div class="footer-col-wrapper"> <div class="footer-col footer-col"> <ul class="social-media-list"> <li> <span class="icon icon--email"> <svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16px" height="16px" viewBox="0 0 512 512"> <title></title> <g id="icomoon-ignore"> </g> <path d="M464 64h-416c-26.4 0-48 21.6-48 48v320c0 26.4 21.6 48 48 48h416c26.4 0 48-21.6 48-48v-320c0-26.4-21.6-48-48-48zM199.37 275.186l-135.37 105.446v-250.821l135.37 145.375zM88.19 128h335.62l-167.81 126-167.81-126zM204.644 280.849l51.356 55.151 51.355-55.151 105.277 135.151h-313.264l105.276-135.151zM312.63 275.186l135.37-145.375v250.821l-135.37-105.446z"></path> </svg> </span><span class="username">lastname AT umd DOT edu</span> </li> <li> <a href="https://twitter.com/rachelrudinger"><span class="icon icon--twitter"><svg viewBox="0 0 16 16" width="16px" height="16px"><path fill="#828282" d="M15.969,3.058c-0.586,0.26-1.217,0.436-1.878,0.515c0.675-0.405,1.194-1.045,1.438-1.809c-0.632,0.375-1.332,0.647-2.076,0.793c-0.596-0.636-1.446-1.033-2.387-1.033c-1.806,0-3.27,1.464-3.27,3.27 c0,0.256,0.029,0.506,0.085,0.745C5.163,5.404,2.753,4.102,1.14,2.124C0.859,2.607,0.698,3.168,0.698,3.767 c0,1.134,0.577,2.135,1.455,2.722C1.616,6.472,1.112,6.325,0.671,6.08c0,0.014,0,0.027,0,0.041c0,1.584,1.127,2.906,2.623,3.206 C3.02,9.402,2.731,9.442,2.433,9.442c-0.211,0-0.416-0.021-0.615-0.059c0.416,1.299,1.624,2.245,3.055,2.271 c-1.119,0.877-2.529,1.4-4.061,1.4c-0.264,0-0.524-0.015-0.78-0.046c1.447,0.928,3.166,1.469,5.013,1.469 c6.015,0,9.304-4.983,9.304-9.304c0-0.142-0.003-0.283-0.009-0.423C14.976,4.29,15.531,3.714,15.969,3.058z"/></svg> </span><span class="username">rachelrudinger</span></a> </li> <li> <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QKCHaHUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao"><span class="icon icon--google_scholar"> <svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16px" height="16px" viewBox="0 0 1024 1024"> <title></title> <g id="icomoon-ignore"> </g> <path d="M812.469 170.526v-62.275l45.199-35.286h-489.13l-295.36 256.75h195.881c-0.355 4.859-0.501 9.254-0.501 14.237 0 47.668 16.509 87.098 49.56 118.597 33.051 31.551 73.753 47.218 121.949 47.218 11.258 0 22.298-0.841 33.018-2.342-6.648 14.866-10.004 28.638-10.004 41.488 0 22.583 10.289 46.721 30.797 72.359-89.721 6.107-155.644 22.257-197.667 48.397-24.083 14.862-43.45 33.625-58.063 56.098-14.614 22.638-21.903 46.915-21.903 73.091 0 22.064 4.716 41.931 14.222 59.6s21.903 32.177 37.303 43.413c15.364 11.361 33.088 20.812 53.098 28.514 19.974 7.647 39.805 13.077 59.597 16.151 19.729 3.069 39.344 4.57 58.785 4.57 30.801 0 61.638-3.966 92.724-11.862 31.013-7.969 60.098-19.762 87.291-35.429 27.12-15.562 49.202-36.787 66.139-63.387 16.9-26.71 25.371-56.725 25.371-89.955 0-25.191-5.145-48.111-15.437-68.927-10.219-20.746-22.726-37.826-37.624-51.097-14.866-13.292-29.729-25.51-44.628-36.516-14.866-11.079-27.442-22.298-37.661-33.875-10.256-11.541-15.401-22.992-15.401-34.266 0-11.254 3.966-22.118 11.928-32.623 7.9-10.541 17.549-20.691 28.836-30.428 11.292-9.718 22.583-20.508 33.838-32.32 11.254-11.771 20.903-27.047 28.836-45.755 7.969-18.704 11.899-39.893 11.899-63.475 0-30.764-5.825-55.937-17.259-76.182-1.358-2.338-2.784-4.124-4.288-6.911l130.138-106.731v39.147c-16.908 2.126-15.148 12.225-15.148 24.321v294.24c0 13.626 11.148 24.775 24.775 24.775h9.121c13.626 0 24.775-11.148 24.775-24.775v-294.24c0-12.067 1.778-22.155-15.005-24.31zM566.955 679.296c2.609 1.716 8.47 6.359 17.651 13.809 9.261 7.417 15.544 13.025 18.902 16.955 3.29 3.805 8.185 9.525 14.581 17.259 6.432 7.717 10.79 14.416 13.077 19.974 2.287 5.664 4.61 12.488 6.966 20.457 2.254 7.878 3.396 15.953 3.396 24.153 0 38.986-15.009 67.873-44.95 86.577-30.015 18.708-65.784 28.068-107.338 28.068-21.009 0-41.627-2.499-61.887-7.307-20.223-4.84-39.589-12.203-58.063-21.958-18.474-9.737-33.336-23.333-44.595-40.698-11.292-17.472-16.937-37.537-16.937-60.028 0-23.601 6.396-44.113 19.26-61.529 12.791-17.439 29.586-30.625 50.384-39.597 20.724-9.023 41.733-15.419 63.029-19.205 21.295-3.893 42.985-5.843 65.034-5.843 10.219 0 18.148 0.574 23.794 1.592 1.040 0.501 6.933 4.734 17.688 12.722 10.757 7.918 17.439 12.795 20.011 14.599zM559.275 449.292c-16.937 20.26-40.556 30.388-70.786 30.388-27.12 0-50.991-10.896-71.499-32.729-20.581-21.778-35.268-46.487-44.237-74.163-9.004-27.691-13.506-54.848-13.506-81.521 0-31.316 8.222-57.975 24.654-79.984 16.436-22.067 40.018-33.124 70.75-33.124 27.156 0 51.166 11.522 71.891 34.661 20.797 23.062 35.696 48.968 44.632 77.679 8.968 28.675 13.432 56.095 13.432 82.289 0 30.75-8.467 56.278-25.33 76.504z"></path> </svg> </span><span class="username">Google Scholar</span></a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </footer> </body> </html>