Zach Solan, PhD: zach@solanad.com
The Syntax of Nature and The Nature of Syntax": The story began here...
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Zach Solan is my name, PhD in physics from the Tel-Aviv University, a freelance algorithm developer in the fields of Machine Learning, Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing.
My business offers algorithm development services for companies operating in this domain. My field of expertise is developing and applying methods for extracting hidden rules from data in supervised and unsupervised manners.
Highlights from my previous work
ADIOS (2006): My PhD thesis "Unsupervised
Learning of Natural Languages" (PNAS 2006) was a joint project
between the school of physics and the school of computer science at
Tel-Aviv University, and the department of psychology at Cornell
University (see more details here).
ADIOS is the code name of the project, it stands for
Automatic Distillation of Structures. ADIOS can also be applied on
different types of data such as stream of music notes, sequence of amino
acids (proteins), sequence of DNAs and more...
The Origin of Human Language (2002):
In this study I examined the role of fitness, commonly assumed without proof to be conferred by the mastery of language, in shaping the dynamics of language evolution.
Associative Networks
The aim of this unpublished study was to develop graph models representing words and their relationships (associations)
IntelliZap (2001): A client-server paradigm uses the context around a text highlighted by the user to improve the related text search results.
Similarity in perception (1988): A neural model of similarity perception in identification tasks. It is based on self-organizing maps and population coding examined through different identification experiments.
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