Research
I am a Ph.D student in Computer Science at Stanford University. I work with Prof. Chris Manning and am a member of the Stanford NLP group. My research interests are syntax, machine translation, and, naturally, Arabic. I am a recipient of both the NSF and NDSEG fellowships.
Publications
2011
Spence Green, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, John Bauer and Christopher D. Manning. 2011. Multiword Expression Identification with Tree Substitution Grammars: A Parsing tour de force with French. In EMNLP 2011. [pdf] [slides] *The data from these experiments can be reproduced using TreebankPreprocessor in the Stanford parser. See the README for details.
Spence Green, Nicholas Andrews, Matt Gormley, Mark Dredze, and Christopher D. Manning. 2011. Cross-lingual Coreference Resolution: A New Task for Multilingual Comparable Corpora. Technical Report 6, Johns Hopkins University. [pdf]
2010
Spence Green and Christopher D. Manning. 2010. Better Arabic Parsing: Baselines, Evaluations, and Analysis. In COLING 2010. [pdf, with typographical corrections] [slides] [parser+preproc-code]
Spence Green, Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning. 2010. Improved Models of Distortion Cost for Statistical Machine Translation. In NAACL 2010. [pdf] [slides] [data] [code]
2009
Michel Galley, Spence Green, Daniel Cer, Pi-Chuan Chang, Christopher D. Manning. 2009. Stanford University’s Arabic-to-English Statistical Machine Translation System for the 2009 NIST Evaluation. The 2009 NIST Open Machine Translation Evaluation Meeting. August 31-September 1, 2009. Ottawa, Canada. [pdf]
Spence Green, Conal Sathi, and Christopher D. Manning. 2009. NP subject detection in verb-initial Arabic clauses. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages (CAASL3). [pdf]
2008 and earlier
Spence Green. 2004. Development of a Prescription Drug Management System (SmartPill). Undergraduate Thesis, University of Virginia, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. [pdf]
