ABOUT

I'm Sangah Lee, an associate professor of linguistics at Seoul National University. I study language model behavior, with a particular interest in how linguistic knowledge is represented internally and how those representations shape model behavior.

My current work focuses on representations & interpretability, multilinguality & latent language, and linguistic knowledge & reasoning. I approach language models primarily as objects of linguistic inquiry: not only asking whether they produce the right answer, but what they represent internally and how they arrive there.

currently Associate Professor of Linguistics
Seoul National University
researching language model behavior · interpretability · multilinguality
based in Seoul, Korea

Experience

2026–presentAssociate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Seoul National University
2022–2026Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Seoul National University
2022Assistant Teaching Professor, Faculty of Liberal Education, Seoul National University
2021–2022Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Seoul National University
2021–2022Postdoctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Data Science, Seoul National University

Education

2021
Ph.D. in Linguistics, Seoul National University

Dissertation: “The Construction of a Korean Pre-Trained Model and an Enhanced Application on Sentiment Analysis”

Advisor: Hyopil Shin

2016
M.A. in Linguistics, Seoul National University

Thesis: “An Automatic Analysis of Argumentation Schemes of Korean Texts”

Advisor: Hyopil Shin

2013
B.A. in Linguistics & B.Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University

Mostly language models.

Sometimes amplifiers. A pink hamster playing a blue Telecaster