--- title: "John Sie Yuen Lee — author profile and papers · English" description: "John Sie Yuen Lee, City University of Hong Kong: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2018), h-index 24 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-sie-yuen-lee/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-sie-yuen-lee/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / John Sie Yuen Lee # John Sie Yuen Lee John Sie Yuen Lee has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2018, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Jonathan Webster](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-webster/). 2 papers in our library · 2017–2018 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100383939) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2505-2678) · [**h-index 24**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100383939) · [217 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100383939) · [3,405 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100383939&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-sie-yuen-lee/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 53 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-sie-yuen-lee/cited-by/) · [12 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10591](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/106/#star-10591) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=John+Sie+Yuen+Lee) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=John+Sie+Yuen+Lee) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=John+Sie+Yuen+Lee) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=John+Sie+Yuen+Lee) ## Affiliations [🎓**City University of Hong Kong** Hong Kong · China 2010–2026 · 93 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/city-university-of-hong-kong/) · [🎓**University of Hong Kong** Pok Fu Lam · China 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-hong-kong/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2004–2009 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Cambridge · United States 2004–2009 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Literature and Literary Theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/literature-and-literary-theory/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-sie-yuen-lee/year/2018/) · [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-sie-yuen-lee/year/2017/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Assisted Nominalization for Academic English Writing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2018-assisted-nominalization-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](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2017-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 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P07-1060/) Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Lee, John*2007 · 57 citations* 2. **[Personalizing Lexical Simplification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C18-1019/) Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**John Lee, Chak Yan Yeung*2018 · 44 citations* 3. **[Personalized Substitution Ranking for Lexical Simplification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W19-8634/) Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation · no summary yet**John Lee, Chak Yan Yeung*2019 · 15 citations* 4. [**Assisted Nominalization for Academic English Writing Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Interactive Systems and Language Generation (2IS&NLG)**John Lee, Dariush Saberi, Marvin Lam, et al.*2018 · 8 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2018-assisted-nominalization-academic-english-writing/) 5. **[Splitting Complex English Sentences](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2017-splitting-complex-english-sentences/) [International Workshop/Conference on Parsing Technologies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-workshop-conference-on-parsing-technologies/)**John Lee, J. Buddhika K. Pathirage Don*2017 · 8 citations* 6. **[Porting an Ancient Greek and Latin Treebank ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L10-1433/) Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10) · no summary yet**John Lee, Dag Haug*2010 · 6 citations* 7. **[A Nearest-Neighbor Approach to the Automatic Analysis of Ancient Greek Morphology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-2117/) CoNLL 2008: Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning · no summary yet**Lee, John*2008 · 5 citations* 8. **[A Customizable Editor for Text Simplification ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C16-2020/) Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations · no summary yet**John Lee, Wenlong Zhao, Wenxiu Xie*2016 · 4 citations* 9. **[Paraphrasing Compound Nominalizations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.632/) Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**John Lee, Ho Hung Lim, Carol Webster*2021 · 3 citations* 10. **[Automatic Compilation of Resources for Academic Writing and Evaluating with Informal Word Identification and Paraphrasing System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.722/) Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yet**Seid Muhie Yimam et al.*2020 · 2 citations* 11. **[Unsupervised Paraphrasability Prediction for Compound Nominalizations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.237/) Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yet**John Sie Yuen Lee, Ho Hung Lim, Carol Webster*2022 · 1 citation* 12. **[CSSWiki: A Chinese Sentence Simplification Dataset with Linguistic and Content Operations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.375/) Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) · no summary yet**Fengkai Liu, John S. Y. Lee*2024* 13. **[Lexical Simplification with the Deep Structured Similarity Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/I17-2073/) Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yet**Lis Pereira, Xiaodong Liu, John Lee*2017* 14. **[Translation Quality and Effort: Options versus Post-editing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W15-5949/) Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Donald Sturgeon, John S. Y. Lee*2015* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jonathan Webster](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-webster/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Workshop/Conference on Parsing Technologies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-workshop-conference-on-parsing-technologies/): [International Workshop/Conference on Parsing Technologies 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-workshop-conference-on-parsing-technologies/2017/) - CoNLL 2008: Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning - Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) - Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers) - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10) ## 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 →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-sie-yuen-lee/cited-by/). 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