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44
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39923
World Ranking
7337
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3193

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - ACM Fellow For contributions to natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and computational social science
  • 2002 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Lillian Lee is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has contributed to the field of computer science with a focus on natural language processing and related areas. Their work spans multiple subfields, including artificial intelligence, accounting, economics and econometrics, statistical and nonlinear physics, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

The primary topics of their research include:

  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Topic Modeling
  • Text Readability and Simplification
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital
  • State Capitalism and Financial Governance
  • Market Dynamics and Volatility

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Lillian Lee are:

  • Tianze Shi
  • Bo Pang
  • Moade Shubita
  • Jack Hessel
  • Vivian Nguyen

Publications by Lillian Lee appear in multiple venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • Energy Economics
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Selected recent papers include:

  • Impact of Paris Agreement on financing strategy: Evidence from global FPSO industry, 2023, Technological Forecasting and Social Change
  • Science, AskScience, and BadScience: On the Coexistence of Highly Related Communities, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • The electric shock: Causes and consequences of electricity prices in the United Kingdom, 2023, Energy Economics
  • Do Androids Laugh at Electric Sheep? Humor "Understanding" Benchmarks from The New Yorker Caption Contest, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • On the Potential of Lexico-logical Alignments for Semantic Parsing to SQL Queries, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Lillian Lee has been recognized with awards such as the ACM Fellow in 2018 for contributions to natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and computational social science, and was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Thumbs up? Sentiment Classification using Machine Learning Techniques

    Bo Pang;Lillian Lee;Shivakumar Vaithyanathan

  • Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis

    Bo Pang;Lillian Lee

  • A Sentimental Education: Sentiment Analysis Using Subjectivity Summarization Based on Minimum Cuts

    Bo Pang;Lillian Lee

  • Seeing Stars: Exploiting Class Relationships for Sentiment Categorization with Respect to Rating Scales

    Bo Pang;Lillian Lee

  • DISTRIBUTIONAL CLUSTERING OF ENGLISH WORDS

    Fernando Pereira;Naftali Tishby;Lillian Lee

  • Measures of Distributional Similarity

    Lillian Lee

  • Get out the vote: Determining support or opposition from Congressional floor-debate transcripts

    Matt Thomas;Bo Pang;Lillian Lee

  • Learning to paraphrase: an unsupervised approach using multiple-sequence alignment

    Regina Barzilay;Lillian Lee

  • Similarity-Based Models of Word Cooccurrence Probabilities

    Ido Dagan;Lillian Lee;Fernando C. N. Pereira

  • User-level sentiment analysis incorporating social networks

    Chenhao Tan;Lillian Lee;Jie Tang;Long Jiang

  • Catching the Drift: Probabilistic Content Models, with Applications to Generation and Summarization

    Regina Barzilay;Lillian Lee

  • Chameleons in Imagined Conversations: A New Approach to Understanding Coordination of Linguistic Style in Dialogs

    Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil;Lillian Lee

  • Echoes of power: language effects and power differences in social interaction

    Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil;Lillian Lee;Bo Pang;Jon Kleinberg

  • How opinions are received by online communities: a case study on amazon.com helpfulness votes

    Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil;Gueorgi Kossinets;Jon Kleinberg;Lillian Lee

  • Winning Arguments: Interaction Dynamics and Persuasion Strategies in Good-faith Online Discussions

    Chenhao Tan;Vlad Niculae;Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil;Lillian Lee

  • PageRank without hyperlinks: structural re-ranking using links induced by language models

    Oren Kurland;Lillian Lee

  • PageRank without hyperlinks: Structural reranking using links induced by language models

    Oren Kurland;Lillian Lee

  • Similarity-Based Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation

    Ido Dagan;Lillian Lee;Fernando Pereira

  • On the effectiveness of the skew divergence for statistical language analysis

    Lillian Lee

  • The effect of wording on message propagation: Topic- and author-controlled natural experiments on Twitter

    Chenhao Tan;Lillian Lee;Bo Pang

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon Kleinberg
Jon Kleinberg Cornell University
Fernando Pereira
Fernando Pereira Google (United States)
David Mimno
David Mimno Cornell University
Ido Dagan
Ido Dagan Bar-Ilan University
Shivakumar Vaithyanathan
Shivakumar Vaithyanathan IBM (United States)
Ming Zhou
Ming Zhou Langboat Technology
Liang Huang
Liang Huang Oregon State University
Hal Daumé
Hal Daumé University of Maryland, College Park
Jordan Boyd-Graber
Jordan Boyd-Graber University of Maryland, College Park

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