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.