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John Sie Yuen Lee

John Sie Yuen Lee has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2018, most of them on English; often with Jonathan Webster.

2 papers in our library · 2017–2018

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 24 · 217 works · 3,405 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 53 times in our library · 12 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9369

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 Affiliations

🎓City University of Hong KongHong Kong · China2010–2026 · 93 papersEmploymentcurrent🎓University of Hong KongPok Fu Lam · China2025 · 1 papercurrent🎓Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge · United States2004–2009 · 11 papers🔬MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence LaboratoryCambridge · United States2004–2009 · 8 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 5The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksLiterature and Literary Theory · 1 work

🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.English · 2 works

 Works by year

2010s

20181 paper20171 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Assisted Nominalization for Academic English Writing (2018 · 8 citations)
    Non-native university students often struggle with the formal style of academic English. A key feature of that style is nominalization, which recasts events as nouns. The authors propose a writing assistant that moves a sentence along Halliday's cline of metaphoricity. It turns a complex clause, such as a main clause…
  2. Splitting Complex English Sentences (2017 · 8 citations)
    The paper looks at one step of syntactic simplification: deciding which text span in a long English sentence should be cut out so it can become a separate sentence.

All works

14 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. A Computational Model of Text Reuse in Ancient Literary Texts ↗Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics · no summary yetLee, John2007 · 57 citations
  2. Personalizing Lexical Simplification ↗Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yetJohn Lee, Chak Yan Yeung2018 · 44 citations
  3. Personalized Substitution Ranking for Lexical Simplification ↗Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation · no summary yetJohn Lee, Chak Yan Yeung2019 · 15 citations
  4. Assisted Nominalization for Academic English WritingProceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Interactive Systems and Language Generation (2IS&NLG)John Lee, Dariush Saberi, Marvin Lam, et al.2018 · 8 citations
  5. Splitting Complex English SentencesInternational Workshop/Conference on Parsing TechnologiesJohn Lee, J. Buddhika K. Pathirage Don2017 · 8 citations
  6. Porting an Ancient Greek and Latin Treebank ↗Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10) · no summary yetJohn Lee, Dag Haug2010 · 6 citations
  7. A Nearest-Neighbor Approach to the Automatic Analysis of Ancient Greek Morphology ↗CoNLL 2008: Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning · no summary yetLee, John2008 · 5 citations
  8. A Customizable Editor for Text Simplification ↗Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations · no summary yetJohn Lee, Wenlong Zhao, Wenxiu Xie2016 · 4 citations
  9. Paraphrasing Compound Nominalizations ↗Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetJohn Lee, Ho Hung Lim, Carol Webster2021 · 3 citations
  10. Automatic Compilation of Resources for Academic Writing and Evaluating with Informal Word Identification and Paraphrasing System ↗Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yetSeid Muhie Yimam et al.2020 · 2 citations
  11. Unsupervised Paraphrasability Prediction for Compound Nominalizations ↗Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yetJohn Sie Yuen Lee, Ho Hung Lim, Carol Webster2022 · 1 citation
  12. CSSWiki: A Chinese Sentence Simplification Dataset with Linguistic and Content Operations ↗Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yetFengkai Liu, John S. Y. Lee2024
  13. Lexical Simplification with the Deep Structured Similarity Model ↗Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yetLis Pereira, Xiaodong Liu, John Lee2017
  14. Translation Quality and Effort: Options versus Post-editing ↗Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Processing · no summary yetDonald Sturgeon, John S. Y. Lee2015

 Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 53 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 7 citing papers with a page here →.

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