Zach Solan, PhD: zsolan@solanad.com
Publications
Press Portfolio
"Computers learn a new language", New Scientist, 06 August 2005
"Machine Prose", Plus Magazine, 12 August 2005 "New Algorithm for Learning Languages", Slashdot, 31 August 2005
Article in the daily newspaper HAARETZ in Hebrew, 19 September 2005
An article in the popular science magazine GALILEO in Hebrew, October 2005
The Science News in Hebrew, Channel 8, 5 December 2005
Journal papers and Conferences
Zach Solan, David Horn, Eytan Ruppin, and Shimon Edelman, Unsupervised learning of natural languages, in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 102:11629-11634, August 16, 2005
Vered Kunik, Zach Solan, Shimon Edelman, Eytan Ruppin and David Horn, Motif Extraction and Protein Classification, to be presented at CSB, Aug. 2005. [Download: paper]
Zach Solan, Eytan Ruppin, Shimon Edelman and David Horn, (2005) Evolution of Language Diversity: Why fitness counts. In Maggie Tallerman, editor, Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution. Oxford University Press.
Shimon Edelman, Zach Solan, Eytan Ruppin and David Horn, Learning syntactic constructions from raw corpora, to appear in Proc. of the 29th Boston University Conference on Language Development, (Boston, MA, Nov 2004). [Download: paper]
David Horn, Zach Solan, Eytan Ruppin and Shimon Edelman, Unsupervised language acquisition: syntax from plain corpus, presented at the Newcastle Workshop on Human Language, Feb. 2004. [Download: paper]
Bo Pedersen, Shimon Edelman, Zach Solan, David Horn, and Eytan Ruppin, (2004) Some Tests of an Unsupervised Model of Language Acquisition, in Proc. COLING-2004 Workshop on Psycho-computational Models of Human Language Acquisition, (Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 2004). [Download: paper]
Shimon Edelman, Zach Solan, David Horn and Eytan Ruppin, (2004) Bridging computational, formal and psycholinguistic approaches to language, to appear in Proc. of the 26th Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Chicago, IL, Aug.2004). [Download: paper]
Shimon Edelman, Zach Solan, David Horn and Eytan Ruppin, (2003) Rich Syntax from a Raw Corpus: Unsupervised Does It; a position paper to be presented at Syntax, Semantics and Statistics; a NIPS-2003 workshop (Whistler, BC, Dec. 2003). [Download: paper]
Solan, Z., Horn, D., Ruppin, E., Edelman, S., (2003) Unsupervised Context Sensitive Language Acquisition from a Large Corpus; in Proc. NIPS-2003. [Download: paper]
Solan, Z., Horn, D., Ruppin, E., Edelman, S., (2003) Unsupervised efficient learning and representation of language structure; in Proc. CogSci-2003. [Download: paper]
Solan, Z., Ruppin, E., Horn, D., Edelman, S., (2002) Automatic acquisition and efficient representation of syntactic structures, NIPS-2002. [Download: paper]
Solan, Z., Ruppin, E., Horn, D., Edelman, S., (2002) Evolution of language diversity: the survival of the fitness (extended abstract of a talk presented at the 4th Intl. Conference on the Evolution of Language, Cambridge, MA, March 2002); [Download: paper]
Finkelstein, L., Gabrilovich E., Matias, Y., Rivlin, E., Solan Z., Wolfman, G., and Ruppin, E., (2002) "Placing Search in Context: The Concept Revisited" ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 20(1):116-131; [Download: paper]
Solan, Z., Ruppin, E., (2001) Similarity in Perception: A Window to Brain Organization Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13:18-30; [Download: paper]