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 and Department of Information Science.
A.B. Cornell 1993, math and computer science; Ph.D. Harvard 1997, computer science.

Note to prospective PhD applicants, 2014-2015 application season

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: I am declining all reviewing invitations, due to TACL co-Editor-in-Chief duties.

Courses

• Spring 2015: CS4786, machine learning and data science, co-taught with Karthik Sridharan
  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 F14, F13)
    
  • Advanced language technologies (CS6740): 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, SP14), 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: 419 Gates Hall, email address [click here to get it], 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: Megan Gatch, Gates 437, 5-3313, MLG34@cornell.edu .

To make an appointment, click here . (I'm still holding regular office hours, but by appointment rather than drop-in so that everyone gets the individual time they're expecting.)

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
  • "Greatest" hit: News flash: female computer-science professor good with computers
    
    
• 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), CRA 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.