Professor Mark Lee BA (Hons), MSc, PhD

Dr Mark Lee

School of Computer Science
Professor of Artificial Intelligence

Contact details

Email
m.g.lee@bham.ac.uk
Address
School of Computer Science
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Professor Mark Lee is a professor of artificial intelligence in the School of Computer Science. His research interests are focussed on Natural Language Processing. He is specifically interested in Sentiment Analysis of text, the automatic identification and understanding of metaphor and the effects of pragmatic inference in dialogue processing. More recently he has been investigating the extraction of constraints from text to build formal models for reasoning. His research has been funded by the Home Office, RCUK, European Union and various industries.

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Biography

Mark graduated from Sussex University with a BA (hons) in Computing and Artificial Intelligence and then completed a MSc in System Design at the University of Manchester before completing a PhD in Natural Language Processing at the University of Sheffield. He joined the University 麻豆精选 as a Research fellow in 1998 and became a lecturer in 2000.

Postgraduate supervision

  • Natural Language Processing

Research

Professor Lee's research interests are focussed on the computational processing of natural language text. He has specific interest in:

  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Semantics/Pragmatics of natural language, especially figurative language
  • Medical Informatics involving Natural Language Processing

NLP like many other areas of AI has been transformed by the application of deep neural models and the use of such models to capture rich semantic information. His current interests are 1) in the theoretical understanding of what kinds of linguistic information can be captured, and 2) developing practical applications using these models, notably in healthcare and psychology.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Alrajeh, D, Nowack, V, Benjamin, P, Thomas, K, Hobson, W, Gutierrez Munoz, C, Hamilton-Giachritsis, C, Kloess, J, Woodhams, J, Butler, D, Law, M, Morton, R, Costello, B, Burrell, A, Grant, T, Shah, P, Laureano De Leon, FA & Lee, M 2025, '', Software Engineering in Society (SEIS).

Conference article

Gu, H, Li, W, Li, L, Zhu, Q, Lee, M, Sun, S, Xue, W & Guo, Y 2025, '', Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, vol. 267, pp. 20497-20514.

Conference contribution

Al Amer, S, Lee, M & Smith, P 2025, . in AK Ojha, C Liu, E Vylomova, F Pirinen, J Abbott, J Washington, N Oco, V Malykh, V Logacheva & X Zhao (eds), Proceedings of The Seventh Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2024). Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, pp. 159-165, Seventh Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages , Bangkok, Thailand, 15/08/24.

Wang, Y, Dsouza, R, Lee, R, Apperly, I, Devine, RT, van der Kleij, S & Lee, M 2025, . in Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology (CLPsych 2025)). Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, pp. 79鈥�89, The Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, 3/05/25.

Li, W, Li, L, Lee, M, Sun, S, Zhang, L, Xue, W & Guo, Y 2025, . in W Che, J Nabende, E Shutova & MT Pilehvar (eds), Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025. Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, pp. 138-152, 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vienna, Austria, 27/07/25. <>

Gamboa, LC, Feng, Y & Lee, M 2025, . in Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP). Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, The 6th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing at ACL 2025., Vienna, Austria, 1/08/25.

Al Amer, S, Lee, M & Smith, P 2025, . in Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2025). Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, The Eighth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, 3/05/25.

Yang, L, Zhou, S, Cheng, J, Zhang, F, Wan, J, Wang, S & Lee, M 2025, . in O Rambow, L Wanner, M Apidianaki, H Al-Khalifa, B Di Eugenio & S Schockaert (eds), Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics. International conference on computational linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, pp. 5890鈥�5901, The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 19/01/25. <>

Gamboa, LCL & Lee, M 2025, . in H Hettiarachchi, T Ranasinghe, P Rayson, R Mitkov, M Gaber, D Premasiri, FA Tan & L Uyangodage (eds), Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages. Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, pp. 123鈥�134, The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 19/01/25. <>

Abbas, A, Kovatchev, V, Lee, M, Shanavas, N & Ali, M 2025, . in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. International conference Recent advances in natural language processing, Incoma Ltd, International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2025, Varna, Bulgaria, 8/09/25.

Abbas, A, Lee, M, Kovatchev, V & Shanavas, N 2025, . in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication. IEEE Press / Wiley, 19th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, Bangkok, Thailand, 3/01/25.

Ftouhi, F, Dsouza, R, Gamboa, LC, Liu, J, Abbas, A, Feng, Y, Ali, M, Lee, M & Kovatchev, V 2025, . in The Eighth FEVER Workshop at The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vienna, Austria, 27/07/25.

Preprint

Gamboa, LCL, Feng, Y & Lee, M 2025 '' arXiv, pp. 1-12.

Liu, J, Bahja, M, Kovatchev, V & Lee, M 2025 ''.

Leon, FLD, Madabushi, HT & Lee, MG 2025 '' arXiv, pp. 1-12.

Expertise

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Natural Language Processing

Mark has previously provided commentary for the following publications:

  • New Scientist
  • Daily Mail
  • The Metro
  • Daily Express