Lillian Lee (computer scientist)

{{short description|American computer scientist}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Lillian Lee

| workplaces = Cornell

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| alma_mater = Harvard University

| doctoral_advisor = Stuart M. Shieber

| thesis_title = Similarity-Based Approaches to Natural Language Processing

| thesis_url = http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/papers/thesis.pdf

| thesis_year = 1997

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Lillian Lee is a computer scientist whose research involves natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and computational social science. She is a professor of computer science and information science at Cornell University,{{r|profile}} and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics.{{r|tacl}}

Education

Lee graduated from Cornell University in 1993 with an undergraduate degree in math and science.{{Cite web |last=LaRocca |first=David |date=2021-11-04 |title=Lillian Lee receives 2021 Association for Computational Linguistics Distinguished Service Award |url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/11/lillian-lee-receives-2021-association-computational-linguistics-distinguished |access-date=2022-06-06 |website=Cornell Chronicle |language=en}} She completed her Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1997. Her dissertation, Similarity-Based Approaches to Natural Language Processing, was supervised by Stuart M. Shieber.{{r|mg}}

Career

Lee has been a member of the Cornell faculty since 1997.{{r|profile}}

Recognition

Lee has been a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence since 2013,{{r|aaai}} and of the Association for Computational Linguistics since 2017.{{r|acl}}

Lee was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and computational social science".{{citation|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2018/december/fellows-2018|title=2018 ACM Fellows Honored for Pivotal Achievements that Underpin the Digital Age|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|date=December 5, 2018}}

References

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{{citation|url=https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-fellows-2017|title=ACL Fellows 2017|publisher=Association for Computational Linguistics|accessdate=2018-12-05}}

{{citation|url=http://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php|title=Elected AAAI Fellows|publisher=Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence|accessdate=2018-12-05}}

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{{citation|url=https://www.engineering.cornell.edu/faculty-directory/lillian-lee|title=Lillian Lee, Professor|publisher=Cornell Engineering|accessdate=2018-12-05}}

{{citation|url=https://www.transacl.org/ojs/index.php/tacl/about/editorialTeam|title=Editorial team|journal=Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics|accessdate=2018-12-05}}

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