Lillian Lee
Lillian Lee studies language and social interaction, including shared research on sentiment analysis, discourse and message wording. Lee earned a Cornell degree in mathematics and computer science in 1993 and a Harvard doctorate in 1997. She coauthored a 1999 paper on measures of distributional similarity and worked with Fernando Pereira and Ido Dagan on word cooccurrence probabilities. Shared papers in 2012 examined language and power differences in social interaction and the effect of phrasing on memorability. With Chenhao Tan and Pang, Lee studied wording and message propagation in 2014. Her students and postdoctoral researchers contributed to her research.
- Now at
- Cornell University and Leeds Beckett University
- Works
- 184
- Citations
- 37,277
- h-index
- 47
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1993–1999
Training and language similarity
Lee earned a Cornell degree in mathematics and computer science in 1993 and a Harvard doctorate in 1997. She coauthored a 1999 paper on measures of distributional similarity and worked with Fernando Pereira and Ido Dagan on word cooccurrence probabilities.
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2002–2005
Learning to analyze sentiment
With Bo Pang and Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, Lee published machine learning work on sentiment classification in 2002. Pang and Lee later published work on sentiment categorization using rating scales in 2005.
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2008
A shared account of opinion analysis
Pang and Lee published Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis. The book appeared in 2008. Lee studies sentiment analysis, semantics, parsing and socially embedded language use.
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2012–2014
Language in social interaction
Shared papers in 2012 examined language and power differences in social interaction and the effect of phrasing on memorability. With Chenhao Tan and Pang, Lee studied wording and message propagation in 2014. Her students and postdoctoral researchers contributed to her research.
Sources and credits
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