I am a PhD candidate in the IGRA graduate programme at the Universität Leipzig. My primary linguistic interest lies in exploring structures and constraints that underlie sentence formation within generative grammar. My dissertation focuses on syntactic movement in ditransitive constructions and investigates the A/A-bar asymmetries within these structures. I am also affiliated witt DFG Scientific Network Applicative alternations across languages (AAAL), and have contributed to projects in natural language processing. Beyond linguistics, I am committed to anti-racist and feminist advocacy, especially addressing intersectional (anti-)Asian racism in Europe through fostering structural discourse on these issues.
Research Interests
- Movement (Asymmetries in Left- & Rightward Movements, Scrambling, Extraposition)
- (No) Control and its licensing condition (with Mike Berger)
- Locality Constraint on Suppletive Allomorph (with Irene Amato)
- Natural Language Processing (with Guanghao Xu)
- Decolonization, (anti-)racism, intersectionality theory, and discourses of power (with Asian Voices Europe)
Recent and Upcoming
To appear Lee, H., Shim, S. & Seong-Yu, J. The Invisible and the Hypervisible: Anti-Asian Racism in Europe and Historico-Racial Schema. Anti-Asian Racism in Transatlantic Perspectives (Ed.) Kien Nghi Ha. pdf anti-racism
Nov. 2025 Civil Society Perspectives on Action and Advocacy. Cross-Sectoral Symposium Addressing Structural Racism, Diversity and Inclusion. Malmö, Sweden anti-racism
Oct. 2025 Hypervisibility, Invisibility, and the Historico-Racial Schema: Rethinking Anti-Asian Racism in Europe. Malmö Institute for Migration Studies, Malmö University, Sweden anti-racism
Aug. 2025 [with Hansun Leem, Noor ul Sabah] Educational Systems as Racialized Structures: Narratives of Exclusion and Resistance Among Immigrant-Background Youth in Germany. The 5th Cultural Diversity, Migration, and Education (CDME). Universität Potsdam, Germany. pdf education
Jul. 2025 Dissonance as a Social Signal. a.r.t.e.s. Forum. Disturbance: Dissonance. Philosophische Fakultät, Universität zu Köln, Germany. pdf anti-racism
Jun. 2025 Anti-Asian Racism in Europe: Racilized realities and Community-led research. Seminar für Ostasien, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. anti-racism
April 2025 The State of Anti-Racism in the EU and Germany: NAPAR Implementation and Legal Frameworks. DAAD working group. The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. pdf anti-racism
Publication
Feb. 2024 Asian Voices Europe. When Asian Voices Echo: anti-Asian racism in Europe. pdf anti-racism
Dec. 2022 Driemel, I. & Lee, H. Pseudo-incorporation vs. Differential Argument Marking in Korean. In Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XIII. lingbuzz/006855 linguistics
Aug. 2021 Lee, H. & Berger. M. (2021) On the obligatory versus no control split in Korean. Non-canonical Control in a Cross-linguistic Perspective. 107-135. (Eds.) Anne Mucha, Jutta M. Hartmann and Beata Trawiński. pdf linguistics
Feb. 2019 Lee, H. & Amato, I. (2019) Locality Constraint Gives an Insight into Suppletion. In Proceedings of the Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe. pdf linguistics
Dec. 2018 Lee, H. & Amato, I. (2018) A Hybrid Locality Constraint on Allomorph. Snippet. Issue 34 – Special issue on Non-local Contextual Allomorphy pdf linguistics
Nov. 2017 Lee, H. & Barrie, M. (2017) Complementizer Allomorphy in Busan Korean. In Proceedings of GLOW in Asia XI. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Cambridge: MA. pdf linguistics
Aug. 2017 Lee, H. (2017) Phasal Spell Out and Prosodic Domain. In Proceedings of 19th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar. The Korean Generative Grammar Cirlcle. linguistics
Feb. 2017 Xu, G. & Lee, H. (2017) Convolutional Neural Network using a Threshold Predictor for Multi-domain Dialogue. In Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp). pdf NLP
Aug. 2017 Xu, G., Lee, H., Koo, M.-W. & Seo, J. (2017) Retrieving Dialogue Distory in Deep Neural Networks for Spoken Language Understanding. Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal. pdf NLP
Dec. 2016 Lee, H, Lee, J & Koo, M.-W. (2016) A Novel Framework for User Intent Detect. The Institute of Electronics and Engineers computer information society, Seoul section. Outstanding Prize. pdf NLP
Dec. 2015
Lee, Y.-I., Lee, H., Koo, M.-W. & Cho, S.-W. (2015) Korean Semantic Similarity Measures for the Vector Space Models. Journal of the Korean society of speech sciences. Vol(7)4. pdf NLP
Dec. 2015
Yang, H., Lee, Y.-I., Lee, H., Cho, S.-W., & Koo, M.-W.. (2015) A Study on Word Vector Models for Representing Korean Semantic Information. Journal of the Korean society of speech Sciences. Vol(7)4. pdf NLP
manuscripts/in prep
May. 2020 Reconstruction effects for Binding and Anti-Locality. Ms. Universität Leipzig. pdf linguistics
Sep. 2019 Xu, G., Lee, H., Koo, M.-W.. & Seo, J. Optimizing Policy via Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Management. pdf NLP
Feb. 2019 Born to be gradient: a case study from compound tensing in Korean. Ms. Universität Leipzig. pdf linguistics
Jul. 2018 Xu, G. & Lee, H. Toward Multi-lingual Natural Language Understanding Using Deep Neural Networks. Ms. Sogang University. pdf NLP
Presentations
Nov. 2024 Race, Racism, and Asian Diaspora in Europe. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. anti-racism
Apr. 2024 [with Lily Shim] Anti-Asian Racism through the Prism of Intersectionality: Gendered Racism and Racialized Queerness. UnKUT, University of Tübingen, Germany. anti-racism
Apr. 2023 Consultaion Process on the implementation of the EU NAPAR 2020-2025. The 5th official Anti-racism Civil Society Forum. The European Commission, Brussels, Belgium anti-racism
Aug. 2022 with Imke Driemel Pseudo-incorporation vs. Differential Argument Marking in Korean. GLOW in Asia XIII. Chinese University of Hong Kong. pdf linguistics
May. 2020 Counter-bleeding effects: index valuation and movement. Opacity Symposium at Universität Leipzig, Germany. linguistics
May. 2019 with Daniel Gleim Fairies land only at midnight: on Laryngeal Sonorant/Vowel Roots in Korean. The 27th Manchester Phonology Meeting. pdf linguistics
May. 2019 Innate Activity: Gradience in Korean Compound Tensing. The 42 Generative Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW) conference (Workshop 2, “Rules and Learning Strategies in the Acquisition of Signed and Spoken Phonologies.”) in Oslo, Norway pdf linguistics
Mar. 2019 [with Mike Berger] Control is Agree: an Evidence from Korean. The 41st Annual Meeting of the DGfS (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft) in Bremen, Germany. pdf linguistics
Jan. 2019 Born to Be Gradient: Predicting exceptions of Compound Tensing in Korean. The 16th Old World Conference on Phonology (OCP XVI) in Verona, Italy. pdf linguistics
Jan. 2019 with Daniel Gleim The Short Life Span of Laryngeal Sonorants in Korean. The 16th Old World Conference on Phonology (OCP XVI) in Verona, Italy. pdf linguistics
Nov. 2018 with Imke Driemel Pseudo-noun incorporation in Korean, Nominals at the Interfaces in Seoul, South Korea. pdf linguistics
Oct. 2018 with Gereon Müller Asymmetries in Long-Distance Dependencies: A View from Gradient Harmonic Grammar. Workshop: Long-distance dependencies in Berlin, Germany. pdf linguistics
May. 2018 Predicting Exceptionality of Sai-siot in Gradient Harmonic Grammar. The 1st Conference on Pokémonastics in Tokyo, Japan. linguistics
Apr. 2018 with Irene Amato Optional Removal in Korean: A New Insight on Free Variation. Workshop on Shrinking Trees in Morphology at Universität Leipzig, Germany. linguistics
Mar. 2018 Asymmetry on left- and right-ward movement. The 40th Annual Meeting of the DGfS (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft) in Stuttgart, Germany. pdf linguistics
Feb. 2018 with Irene Amato Locality Constraint Gives an Insight to Suppletion. The 26th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE XXVI) at University College London, England. pdf linguistics
Jan. 2018
[with Guanghao Xu] Optimizing Policy via Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Management. IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp) in Shanghai, China. pdf NLP
Nov. 2017
with Irene Amato Suppletion under a locality constraint: an evidence from Korean. The 14th Conference on Typology and Grammar for Young Scholars at Institute for Linguistic Studies RAS, Russia. linguistics
Jun. 2017 Tone Melody in Busan Korean Revisited. The 20th Biennial Meeting of the International Circle of Korean Linguistics (ICKL20) at University of Helsinki, Finland. linguistics
Feb. 2017 with Michael Barrie Complementizer Allomorphy in Busan Korean. Generative Linguistics in the GLOW in Asia XI at National University of Singapore, Singapore. linguistics
Feb. 2017 [with Guangho Xu] Convolutional Neural Network using a Threshold Predictor for Multi-label Speech Act Classification, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp) in Jeju, Korea. NLP
Jan. 2017 Complementizer Agreement in Busan Korean. The 25th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE XXV) at Universität Leipzig, Germany. linguistics
Nov. 2016 A Study on User Intent Detect in the Wordpiece Model. 2016 International Conference on Speech Sciences (ICSS) at Seoul National University, Korea. NLP
Aug. 2016
The Left Periphery in Busan Korean Interrogatives. The 18th Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG) in Sogang University, Korea. linguistics
Jun. 2016
The Interrogative Complementizer and Distributed Morphology in Busan Korean. Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Phonology (WoSSP) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. linguistics
May. 2016
A Study on Dialog Act for Representing Korean Semantic Information. International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS) at Seoul National University, Korea. NLP linguistics
Dec. 2015
The Distribution of Complementizer in South Kyungsang Korean. English Language & Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK) International Conference in Busan, Korea. linguistics
Nov. 2015
A study on Word Vector Model for Representing Korean Semantic Information. Korean Society of Speech Science (KSSS) International Conference at Ehwa Womans University, Korea. NLP