How Do Language Models Represent and Use Phonological Information for Allomorph Selection?
2026 · Sangwoo Kim · Sangah Lee · Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Oral Presentation)
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SANGAH LEE
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
Seoul National University
I study how language models represent, reason with, and sometimes mess up language.
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Do Korean-Adapted LLMs Think in Korean? Analyzing Latent Language and the Preservation of Korean-Specific Knowledge
2025 · Sangah Lee · Language and Information, Vol.29, No.3, pp.229–256
Nunchi-Bench: Benchmarking Language Models on Cultural Reasoning with a Focus on Korean Superstition
2025 · Kyuhee Kim · Sangah Lee · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
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2026-11-11
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2026-11-21
Will have a talk at 2026 Fall Conference of The Korean Generative Grammar Circle
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WHAT I WORK ON THESE DAYS
Language Model Behavior
I study what language models know about language, how that knowledge is represented internally, and how it shapes their behavior.
Representations & Interpretability
How linguistic information is represented inside language models, and what those representations reveal about model behavior.
Multilinguality & Latent Language
How models represent and mediate information across languages, including language-specific knowledge and latent language.
Linguistic Knowledge & Reasoning
How models use linguistic knowledge in reasoning, and when apparent reasoning is actually memorization.