Lillian Lee

The crudest curriculum vitae crows and flaps its wings in a style peculiar to the undersigner. I doubt whether you can even give your telephone number without giving something of yourself.
  –Nabokov, Nikolai Gogol

Professor (having previously assisted and associated), Department of Computer Science, Cornell University.
A.B. Cornell 1993, math and computer science; Ph.D. Harvard 1997, computer science.

Note to prospective PhD applicants, 2013-2014 application season: I am interested in taking students, but I am not replying to direct emails. I know that sounds weird, but here's why. I used to always reply personally and individually to emails from interesting-sounding people asking about graduate study with me. But one year, I checked up and it turned out that none of the people I answered ended up applying! What I learned from this is that I'm somehow really quite bad at conveying my sincere enthusiasm --- maybe this has something to do with my tendency towards overly long sentences --- and so let me just say this: if you've made it to the end of this paragraph and think natural language processing, social interaction, and/or my papers seem like a lot of fun to you, please apply!!

Research

• Research summary
• Groups: my students :: NLP :: machine learning :: AI
• Papers: includes links to associated talk slides, data, etc.
• Data
• Other talk slides

Professional recognition and activities

• Awards, press, offices, editorial boards, outreach, etc.
• This year's conference reviewing (please submit to and attend these meetings!): EMNLP 2013, EACL 2014, Content analysis track co-chair for WWW 2014

Courses

• Current: CS1110, Intro to computing using Python, co-taught with Steve Marschner
  Both fall and spring: NLP seminar, AI seminar  
  
• Selected past courses:
  • Computation, information, and intelligence (CS 1700, aka 172, S07)
    
  • Natural language processing and social interaction (CS6742 F13)
    
  • Advanced language technologies, with more emphasis than other runnings on IR, language modeling, CFGs and TAGS, less on other applications: F07 (a generally quite strong set of student-authored lecture guides with problems), S10 (fancy tabbing navigation using javascript, updated references).
    
  • Introduction to computing using Python, (CS1110, SP13), co-taught with Steve Marschner
• Some even older courses of potential interest: Natural language processing (CS674 S02), Statistical natural language processing: Models and methods (CS775 F01)
  

Contact and availability info

Actual coordinates: 4152 Upson Hall 419 Gates Hall!, email , phone 607-255-8119 fax 607-255-4428.
Mailing address is Cornell University, Department of Computer Science, 419 Gates Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853
Street address is 107 Hoy Road
Administrative assistant: Maria Witlox, Gates 437, 5-3313, mwitlox@cs .

• Drop-in office hours (i.e., no appointment necessary): check this Google calendar link about where and when; re-check 12 hours in advance for changes.
  
• To make an appointment for a time other than my drop-in office hours, send me email that includes several options for time slots during business hours. Due to prior department/class commitments, I am generally not available Mon 12-1:30, any of Tuesday, Wed 12-1:30, Th until 1, Friday 10-2:30.
  

Utilities

• Customized BibTeX bibliography format file for Sente (handles @inproceedings entries correctly if you define an In Proceedings format type, and other entry types): llee-BibTeX-v1.0.bibstyle (Feb 6 2012).

Other stuff

• Google+ page: (only) research-, teaching-, academia-related posts, on occasion
  
  
• Some highlights regarding Cornell and/or the Cornell computer science department
• Advice other people have told me is useful (I don't necessarily agree with everything said): SUNY Oswego Honors program How to do really well in college;    CRA-W graduate student information guide (should you go, how to apply, what grad school is like); NPSC grad student handbook (some is adminstrative stuff applicable only for NPSC fellows, but a lot of general advice too), CCC site on research opportunities, grad school
  
  
• I'm not from Iowa.
• Nor am I the bread and the knife.
• Or Michiko Kakutani.
• No Pinot Grigio for me, buddy.