--- title: "Lillian Lee — papers and cards" description: "Lillian Lee: 3 paper cards in the Research library (2003–2021), with what each paper is about, the ideas Mova took from it, and the co-authors." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lillian-lee/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lillian-lee/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Lillian Lee # Lillian Lee 3 paper cards in the Research library · 2003–2021 Lillian Lee wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2003–2021, most of them on [Dependency parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/), [Part-of-speech tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Tianze Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianze-shi/), [Regina Barzilay](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/regina-barzilay/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5076876084) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4770-1712) · [**h-index 47**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5076876084) · [37283 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5076876084) · [185 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5076876084) — openalex-snapshot, 2026-10-14 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=Lillian+Lee) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Lillian+Lee) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Lillian+Lee) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Lillian+Lee) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=Lillian+Lee) Topics: [Dependency parsing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dependency-parsing/) 2 · [Part-of-speech tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) 1 · [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) 1 ## Ideas Mova took (1) From the ideas ledger: an idea tried, kept or queued, or measured with no gain, and what it gave. - **tried** — Align all English renderings of one verse across the translations in the same way. The shared backbone is the frame-preserving part of the verse, and the slots are the author delta. A slot filled in three or more translations goes to the standard; a slot… *([Learning to Paraphrase: An Unsupervised Approach Using…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barzilay-2003-learning-paraphrase-unsupervised-approach-multiple/) · translate r6-lattice: the four Bibles' renderings of each training verse aligned (LCS of concepts); the standard learned on the shared backbone only (1.20 M…)* ## Papers 1. **[Transition-based Bubble Parsing: Improvements on Coordination Structure Prediction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2021-transition-based-bubble-parsing-improvements/)** *(2021)* Standard dependency trees give coordination an awkward shape: one conjunct must be the head, and a shared modifier ("hot" in "hot coffee or tea and a bun") cannot be told apart from a private one. 2. **[Extracting Headless MWEs from Dependency Parse Trees: Parsing, Tagging, and Joint Modeling Approaches](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/acl-2020-shi-extracting-headless-mwes-dependency-parse/)** *(2020)* A headless multi-word expression, such as "Wells Fargo" or "day after day", has no internal head, yet dependency schemes force a head on it. 3. **[Learning to Paraphrase: An Unsupervised Approach Using Multiple-Sequence Alignment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barzilay-2003-learning-paraphrase-unsupervised-approach-multiple/)** *(2003)* The paper addresses sentence-level paraphrase, which is harder than word or phrase paraphrase, using comparable news corpora: different sources reporting the same events. ## Co-authors (2) - [Tianze Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianze-shi/) ×2 - [Regina Barzilay](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/regina-barzilay/) ## More papers in the library (1) Pages of the Research library: our summary, the ideas, references and who cites each. - [Chameleons in Imagined Conversations: A New Approach to Understanding Coordination of Linguistic Style in Dialogs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mizil-2011-chameleons-imagined-conversations-new-approach/) — Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Lillian Lee · 2011