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

Associate professor, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University. A.B. Cornell 1993, Ph.D. Harvard 1997

Research, professional, and teaching activities

Research:
- Research summary (and a comment I hope is a typo, plus some prior work)
- Background: a general-audience overview of the history of natural language processing (NLP)
- Research groups: my students :: NLP :: machine learning :: AI
  - AI at Cornell: A banner year: seven major best-paper awards and more! (link: scan of a two-page spread — scroll right when viewing the pdf)
- Papers and papers by my students
  New: Opinion mining and sentiment analysis, Bo Pang and Lillian Lee. Now publishers, July 2008, ISBN 978-1-60198-150-9.
- Data
- Some talk slides
Awards and professional activities
Courses:
- Fall 2008: CS 7794 (775), NLP seminar, Tuesdays 3pm in Upson 5126.
- Spring 2009: CS 1110: Introducting to computing using Java; CS 7794, NLP seminar.
  Please note that ENGRI 1700 is not being offered; Student Center is incorrect (this should be fixed shortly).
- Selected past courses:
  CS/ENGRI/INFO/COGST 172: Computation, Information, and Intelligence (F01, F02, F05, SP07)
  [ACL TeachNLP workshop paper and slides (ps, pdf); AAAI teaching workshop paper]
  CS674/INFO 630: Advanced language technologies (or, IR and NLP, with special guests) (S06, F07)
  CS674: Natural Language Processing (S98-00, S02)
  CS775, Spring 2001: Statistical Natural Language Processing: Models and Methods

Contact and availability info

Actual coordinates are 4152 Upson Hall , email gif with email address

, phone 607-255-8119 fax 607-255-4428.
Mailing address is Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, 4130 Upson Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-7501
Administrative assistant: Randy Hess, Upson 4146, 5-0985, rbhess@cs .

Drop-in office hours: Fall 08: Tuesdays 11-12 except during Cornell breaks and as otherwise noted. Last official office hours December 2. I may have a drop-in office hour the morning of December 10; will confirm later.
- I'll be regularly out of the office on Mondays, Thursdays, and Friday afternoons (as an ISS Faculty Fellow).
Appointments may also be made: to schedule, send me email that includes several options for time slots during business hours.

Other stuff

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, you could stuartize your web page. Alas, no more.
I'm not from Iowa.
Nor am I the bread and the knife.
Or Michiko Kakutani.