--- title: "Yoong Keok Lee — author profile and papers" description: "Yoong Keok Lee, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2002–2012), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoong-keok-lee/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoong-keok-lee/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yoong Keok Lee # Yoong Keok Lee Yoong Keok Lee has 2 papers in our library, in 2002–2012, most of them on [Word sense disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/); often with [David Stallard](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-stallard/), [Hwee Tou Ng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hwee-tou-ng/), [Jacob Devlin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacob-devlin/). 2 papers in our library · 2002–2012 current affiliation [MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) · Cambridge United States; [Massachusetts Institute of Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · Cambridge United States [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5069562499) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5069562499) · [7 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5069562499) · [427 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5069562499&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoong-keok-lee/#papers) · [76 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoong-keok-lee/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3437](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/35/#star-3437) 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=Yoong+Keok+Lee) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yoong+Keok+Lee) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yoong+Keok+Lee) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yoong+Keok+Lee) ## Affiliations [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2010–2012 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Cambridge · United States 2011–2012 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) · [🤝**DSO National Laboratories** Singapore · Singapore 2003–2006 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/ngos/dso-national-laboratories/) · [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2016–2018 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Word sense disambiguation 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/word-sense-disambiguation/) · [Machine translation 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Morphology 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Semitic languages 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2012** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stallard-2012-unsupervised-morphology-rivals-supervised-morphology/) ### 2000s [**2002** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2002-empirical-evaluation-knowledge-sources-learning/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[An Empirical Evaluation of Knowledge Sources and Learning Algorithms for Word Sense Disambiguation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2002-empirical-evaluation-knowledge-sources-learning/)** *(2002 · 302 citations)* The paper investigates how supervised word sense disambiguation (WSD) accuracy depends on two factors: the features used to describe a word's context and the classifier trained on them. 2. **[Unsupervised Morphology Rivals Supervised Morphology for Arabic MT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stallard-2012-unsupervised-morphology-rivals-supervised-morphology/)** *(2012 · 30 citations)* The question is whether an unsupervised Arabic segmenter (the Lee et al. Bayesian model) can match supervised segmenters such as MADA and Sakhr when it feeds a hierarchical string-to-tree MT system. The authors add maximum marginal decoding (MM) over 25 Gibbs-sampling runs. Sampling alone changes 13% of token… ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [David Stallard](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-stallard/) - [Hwee Tou Ng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hwee-tou-ng/) - [Jacob Devlin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacob-devlin/) - [Regina Barzilay](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/regina-barzilay/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 76 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoong-keok-lee/cited-by/).