Research
I am a master’s student in Computer Science at Stanford University. My advisor is Prof. Chris Manning and I 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
2010
Spence Green and Christopher D. Manning. 2010. Better Arabic Parsing: Baselines, Evaluations, and Analysis. In COLING 2010. [pdf, with typographical corrections] [slides] [data] [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]
