Papers

Dean E. Murphy: ... your volume of work is rather modest. Why do you not write more?
Wisława Szymborska: ... You see, I also have this wastebasket.

            — L.A. Times interview, translated from the Polish by Ela Kasprzycka.
                Thanks to Reanna Esmail, Cornell reference assistant, for tracking down the source.

 

The woman who wrote from Phoenix
after my reading there

to tell me they were all still talking about it

just wrote again
to tell me that they had stopped.

            — “Feedback”, Billy Collins, Horoscopes for the Dead

One could imagine idly speculating about "what is the citation statistic that makes people like oneself look the best"? (If you have never wondered this, you are better person than I am.) One proposal: median citation count per paper; ACM reports the average per article.

Subjects, in sort order for table below: | analysis | | | | | , inc. simplification| | , inc. paraphrasing and summarization | | | general-audience papers | reviews/pedagogy

Incidentally, my Erdös number is ≤ 3: L. Lee → N. Tishby → N. Linial → P. Erdos. And my Molotov cocktail number is ≤ 4: L. Lee → J. Kleinberg → C. Rackoff → CR's father-in-law → V. Molotov

Subject (click here to sort; 1st=“general audience”)	Pub year & venue (click here to sort)	Authors & title	Arguably lesser-known favorites (click here to surface)
	2024 EMNLP Findings	Vivian Nguyen, Sang Min Jung, Lillian Lee, Thomas D. Hull, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil Taking a turn for the better: Conversation redirection throughout the course of mental-health therapy
	2023 ACL (best paper award)	Jack Hessel, Ana Marasović, Jena D. Hwang, Lillian Lee, Jeff Da, Rowan Zellers, Robert Mankoff, Yejin Choi Do Androids Laugh at Electric Sheep? Humor "Understanding" Benchmarks from The New Yorker Caption Contest [ACL Anthology, github, pre-conference 6-min talk, best-paper award talk (Jack starts speaking at about 15:06)]
	2022 SIGHUM wksp	Ana Smith, Lillian Lee War and Pieces: Comparing Perspectives About World War I and II Across Wikipedia Language Communities [poster]
	2021 ACL	Tianze Shi, Lillian Lee Transition-based bubble parsing: Improvements on coordination structure prediction
	2021 NAACL	Tianze Shi, Ozan Irsoy, Igor Malioutov, Lillian Lee Learning syntax from naturally-occurring bracketings
	2021 IWPT Shared Task (Top system overall and top on 16 of 17 languages)	Tianze Shi, Lillian Lee TGIF: Tree-Graph Integrated-Format Parser for Enhanced UD with Two-Stage Generic- to Individual-Language Finetuning
	2021 SocialNLP	Karen Zhou, Ana Smith, Lillian Lee Assessing cognitive linguistic influences in the assignment of blame
	2020 EMNLP	Jack Hessel and Lillian Lee Does my multimodal model learn cross-modal interactions? It's harder to tell than you might think!
	2020 Findings of ACL: EMNLP	Tianze Shi, Chen Zhao, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Hal Daumé, and Lillian Lee, On the potential of lexico-logical alignments for semantic parsing to SQL queries
	2020 ACL	Tianze Shi, Lillian Lee Extracting headless MWEs from dependency parse trees: parsing, tagging, and joint modeling approaches [ACL anthology site, including talk video]
	2019 CSCW	Kumar Bhargav Srinivasan, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee, Chenhao Tan Content removal as a moderation strategy: Compliance and other outcomes in the ChangeMyView community
	2019 EMNLP	Jack Hessel, Lillian Lee, and David Mimno Unsupervised discovery of multimodal links in multi-image, multi-sentence documents
,	2019 NAACL	Jack Hessel, Lillian Lee Something's brewing! Early prediction of controversy-causing posts from discussion features
	2018 EMNLP	Tianze Shi, Lillian Lee Valency-augmented dependency parsing [ACL anthology site, including talk video, although due to travel issues the talk was presented by Xiang Yu]
	2018 ACL	Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Tianze Shi, Lillian Lee Global transition-based non-projective dependency parsing
,	2018 NAACL	Jack Hessel, David Mimno, Lillian Lee Quantifying the visual concreteness of words and topics in multimodal datasets
	2018 NAACL short	Tianze Shi, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Lillian Lee Improving coverage and runtime complexity for exact inference in non-projective transition-based dependency parsers
	2017 EMNLP	Tianze Shi, Liang Huang, Lillian Lee Fast(er) exact decoding and global training for transition-based dependency parsing via a minimal feature set [ACL anthology site, including talk video]
	2017 WWW	Liye Fu, Lillian Lee, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil (C. D-N-M is the corresponding senior author) When confidence and competence collide: Effects on online decision-making discussions
	2017 WWW	Jack Hessel, Lillian Lee, David Mimno Cats and captions vs. creators and the clock: Comparing multimodal content to context in predicting relative popularity
	2016 NLP+journalism IJCAI wksp (best paper award)	Liye Fu, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee Tie-breaker: Using language models to quantify gender bias in sports journalism
	2016 WWW	Chenhao Tan, Vlad Niculae, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee Winning arguments: Interaction dynamics and persuasion strategies in good-faith online discussions. (Analyzes the Change My View subreddit)
	2016 WWW	Isabel Kloumann, Chenhao Tan, Jon Kleinberg, Lillian Lee Internet collaboration on extremely difficult problems: Research versus Olympiad questions on the Polymath site.
	2016 ICWSM	Jack Hessel, Chenhao Tan, Lillian Lee Science, AskScience, and BadScience: On the coexistence of highly related communities
	2016 presentation at Text as Data/arxiv 1612.06391	Chenhao Tan, Lillian Lee Talk it up or play it down? (Un)expected correlations between (de-)emphasis and recurrence of discussion points in consequential U.S. economic policy meetings.
	2015 WWW	Chenhao Tan, Lillian Lee All Who Wander: On the Prevalence and Characteristics of Multi-community Engagement
	2015 NIPS soc+info networks workshop	Jack Hessel, Alexandra Schofield, Lillian Lee, David Mimno What do Vegans do in their Spare Time? Latent Interest Detection in Multi-Community Networks
	2014 ACL	Chenhao Tan, Lillian Lee, Bo Pang The effect of wording on message propagation: Topic- and author-controlled natural experiments on Twitter
,	2014 ACL short	Chenhao Tan, Lillian Lee A corpus of sentence-level revisions in academic writing: A step towards understanding statement strength in communication
	2013 WSDM	Lars Backstrom, Jon Kleinberg, Lillian Lee, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil Characterizing and curating conversation threads: Expansion, focus, volume, re-entry
	2012 ACL	Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Justin Cheng, Jon Kleinberg, Lillian Lee You had me at hello: How phrasing affects memorability
	2012 WWW	Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee, Bo Pang, Jon Kleinberg Echoes of power: Language effects and power differences in social interaction
	2012 Extra-propositional aspects of meaning wksp	Eunsol Choi, Chenhao Tan, Lillian Lee, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jennifer Spindel Hedge detection as a lens on framing in the GMO debates: A position paper
&	2011 KDD poster	Chenhao Tan, Lillian Lee, Jie Tang, Long Jiang, Ming Zhou, Ping Li User-level sentiment analysis incorporating social networks
	2011 Cognitive Modeling wksp	Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee Chameleons in imagined conversations: A new approach to understanding coordination of linguistic style in dialogs.
	2010 ACL short	Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee Don't 'have a clue'? Unsupervised co-learning of downward-entailing operators
	2010 NAACL short	Mark Yatskar, Bo Pang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee For the sake of simplicity: Unsupervised extraction of lexical simplifications from Wikipedia
	2010 TOIS/2005 SIGIR	Oren Kurland, Lillian Lee PageRank without hyperlinks: Structural re-ranking using links induced by language models.
reviews/pedagogy	2010 CRA-E report	Lillian Lee CS Department curriculum reform: "Vectors"
&	2009 WWW	Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Gueorgi Kossinets, Jon Kleinberg, Lillian Lee How opinions are received by online communities: A case study on Amazon.com helpfulness votes.
	2009 NAACL	Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee, Rick Ducott Without a ‘doubt’? Unsupervised discovery of downward-entailing operators.
	2009 TOIS/2004 SIGIR	Oren Kurland, Lillian Lee Corpus structure, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval.
&	2008 book	Bo Pang, Lillian Lee Opinion mining and sentiment analysis.
	2008 COLING poster	Bo Pang, Lillian Lee Using very simple statistics for review search: An exploration.
	2008 COLING poster	Mohit Bansal, Claire Cardie, Lillian Lee The power of negative thinking: Exploiting label disagreement in the min-cut classification framework.
reviews/pedagogy	2008 AAAI educ. symp.	Eric Breck, David Easley, K.-Y. Daisy Fan, Jon Kleinberg, Lillian Lee, Jennifer Wofford, Ramin Zabih A new start: Innovative introductory AI-centered courses at Cornell.
	2007 SIGIR poster	Lillian Lee IDF revisited: A simple new derivation within the Robertson-Spärck Jones probabilistic model
	2006 SIGIR	Oren Kurland, Lillian Lee Respect my authority! HITS without hyperlinks, utilizing cluster-based language models.
&	2006 EMNLP (Listed by Paper Digest in Feb 2021 as the #2 most influential paper of that conference)	Matt Thomas, Bo Pang, Lillian Lee Get out the vote: Determining support or opposition from Congressional floor-debate transcripts.
	2005 ACL (Listed by Paper Digest in Feb 2021 as the #3 most influential paper of that conference)	Bo Pang, Lillian Lee Seeing stars: Exploiting class relationships for sentiment categorization with respect to rating scales.
	2005 SIGIR	Oren Kurland, Lillian Lee, Carmel Domshlak Better than the real thing? Iterative pseudo-query processing using cluster-based language models.
	2004 NAACL (Best paper award. Listed by Paper Digest in Feb 2021 as the #4 most influential paper of that conference)	Regina Barzilay, Lillian Lee Catching the drift: Probabilistic content models, with applications to generation and summarization.
	2004 ACL (Listed by Paper Digest in Feb 2021 as the #1 most influential paper of that conference)	Bo Pang, Lillian Lee A sentimental education: Sentiment analysis using subjectivity summarization based on minimum cuts.
	2004 Nat'l Academies	Lillian Lee "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that": Linguistics, statistics, and natural language processing circa 2001.
	2004 IBM summit	Lillian Lee A matter of opinion: Sentiment analysis and business intelligence (position paper).
	2003 NAACL (Listed by Paper Digest in Feb 2021 as the #5 most influential paper of that conference)	Regina Barzilay, Lillian Lee Learning to paraphrase: An unsupervised approach using multiple-sequence alignment.
	2002 JACM/1997 ACL	Lillian Lee Fast Context-Free Grammar Parsing Requires Fast Boolean Matrix Multiplication.
	2002 EMNLP (ACL test-of-time award for all *ACL 2002-2012 conferences. Listed by Paper Digest in Feb 2021 as the #1 most influential paper of that conference)	Bo Pang, Lillian Lee, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan Thumbs up? Sentiment classification using machine learning techniques.
	2002 EMNLP (nominated for best paper)	Regina Barzilay, Lillian Lee Bootstrapping lexical choice via multiple-sequence alignment.
reviews/pedagogy	2002 TeachNLP wksp	Lillian Lee A non-programming introduction to computer science via NLP, IR, and AI
	2001 SIGIR (nominated for best paper)	Rie Kubota Ando, Lillian Lee Iterative residual rescaling: An analysis and generalization of LSI.
	2001 AISTATS	Lillian Lee On the effectiveness of the skew divergence for statistical language analysis
	2000 NAACL/2003 JNLE	Rie Kubota Ando, Lillian Lee Mostly-unsupervised statistical segmentation of Japanese: Applications to kanji
reviews/pedagogy	2000 CL review	Lillian Lee [review of] Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing by Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Schütze
	1999 ACL (ACL 2024 25-year Test of Time award)	Lillian Lee Measures of Distributional Similarity
	1999 ACL	Lillian Lee, Fernando Pereira Distributional similarity models: Clustering vs. nearest neighbors
	1999 MLJ	Ido Dagan, Lillian Lee, Fernando Pereira Similarity-based models of word cooccurrence probabilities
	1997 ACL	Ido Dagan, Lillian Lee, Fernando Pereira Similarity-based methods for word sense disambiguation
	1997 thesis	Lillian Lee Similarity-based approaches to natural language processing
	1996 techrpt	Lillian Lee Learning of context-free languages: A survey of the literature.
	1994 ACL	Ido Dagan, Fernando Pereira, Lillian Lee Similarity-based estimation of word cooccurrence probabilities
	1993 ACL	Fernando Pereira, Naftali Tishby, Lillian Lee Distributional clustering of English words

The work described in the publications above was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under several grants (to see which grants supported a particular paper, please consult the acknowledgments of that publication). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed above are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.