--- title: "Ruty Rinott — author profile and papers" description: "Ruty Rinott, University of California, Los Angeles: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2015–2019), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruty-rinott/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruty-rinott/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ruty Rinott # Ruty Rinott Ruty Rinott works in natural language processing, and both papers here centre on building evaluation resources from Wikipedia text and defining tasks around them. One concerns finding text that supports an argument. The other concerns answering questions across languages, linking the work to [question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) and [multilingual and cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/). The method repeats across both: careful multi-stage annotation by people produces a benchmark, which then supports either a supervised system or a cross-language comparison of models. The earlier paper, [Show Me Your Evidence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rinott-2015-show-me-your-evidence-automatic/) (2015), set out the task of context dependent evidence detection. Given a debate topic and a claim, a system must find short, well-formed passages in related documents that back the claim, sorting them as study, expert or anecdotal evidence. The authors assembled a benchmark from 547 Wikipedia articles on 58 Debatabase topics. Labels were gathered in two rounds, with one group of annotators proposing candidate spans and a second group accepting or rejecting them. Their pipeline first judges whether a span reads as evidence at all and only then whether it suits the particular claim. It also weighs the span's section header and the titles of the sources it cites. The later and more widely cited paper, [MLQA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lewis-2019-mlqa-evaluating-cross-lingual-extractive/) (2019), turns to extractive question answering beyond English. It provides an evaluation-only benchmark in seven languages: English, Arabic, Hindi, German, Vietnamese, Spanish and simplified Chinese. The benchmark was built by aligning Wikipedia sentences that share a meaning across languages and having crowd-workers pose English questions answered within those sentences. Professional translators then carried the questions into the other languages. Co-authors on the papers here include [Patrick Lewis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patrick-lewis/), [Sebastian Riedel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-riedel/), [Holger Schwenk](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/holger-schwenk/), [Noam Slonim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noam-slonim/) and [Ehud Aharoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehud-aharoni/). Rinott is currently at the [University of California, Los Angeles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-los-angeles/), after a long stretch at [IBM Research - Haifa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-haifa/) from 2011 to 2021. Earlier bylines also list the [Hebrew University of Jerusalem](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hebrew-university-of-jerusalem/) and [New York University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/). Ruty Rinott has 2 papers in our library, in 2015–2019, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Ehud Aharoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehud-aharoni/), [Holger Schwenk](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/holger-schwenk/), [Mitesh M. Khapra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitesh-m-khapra/). 2 papers in our library · 2015–2019 current affiliation [University of California, Los Angeles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-los-angeles/), Los Angeles, United States [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5076609993) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5076609993) · [19 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5076609993) · [2 132 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5076609993&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruty-rinott/#papers) · [1 461 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruty-rinott/cited-by/) · 2 more works in our library · [⭐ Paper Star rank #1949](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/20/#star-1949) 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=Ruty+Rinott) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ruty+Rinott) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ruty+Rinott) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ruty+Rinott) ## Affiliations - [University of California, Los Angeles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-los-angeles/) · Los Angeles, United States —current · 2023 on 2 papers - [IBM Research - Haifa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-haifa/) · Haifa, Israel —2011–2021 on 6 papers - [New York University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) · New York, United States —2018 on 2 papers - [IBM (United States)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · Armonk, United States —2012–2014 on 2 papers - [Hebrew University of Jerusalem](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hebrew-university-of-jerusalem/) · Jerusalem, Israel —2010–2011 on 2 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Question answering 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lewis-2019-mlqa-evaluating-cross-lingual-extractive/) · [**2015** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rinott-2015-show-me-your-evidence-automatic/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MLQA: Evaluating Cross-lingual Extractive Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lewis-2019-mlqa-evaluating-cross-lingual-extractive/)** *(2019 · 735 citations)* Extractive QA has advanced rapidly in English thanks to large benchmarks such as SQuAD, but similar evaluation data is scarce in other languages, so progress in cross-lingual QA is hard to measure. 2. **[Show Me Your Evidence - an Automatic Method for Context Dependent Evidence Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rinott-2015-show-me-your-evidence-automatic/)** *(2015 · 296 citations)* The paper introduces Context Dependent Evidence Detection (CDED). Given a debate topic, a claim, and related documents, the goal is to locate short, well-formed text segments that back the claim within that topic. The authors separate three evidence types: Study, Expert, and Anecdotal. They built a benchmark from 547… ## Also in our library 2 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ehud Aharoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehud-aharoni/) - [Holger Schwenk](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/holger-schwenk/) - [Mitesh M. Khapra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mitesh-m-khapra/) - [Noam Slonim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noam-slonim/) - [Patrick Lewis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patrick-lewis/) - [Sebastian Riedel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-riedel/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1 461 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [127 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruty-rinott/cited-by/).