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Alona Soschen, Ph.D.
Alona Soschen is a North-American linguist and cognitive scientist. She received her bachelor’s degree in languages and master's degree in linguistics from the Moscow State University and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Ottawa. She completed her post-doctoral program (linguistics, cognitive and computer sciences) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a senior scientist at DesipherIQ and project developer. Her research focuses on mathematical models of mental representations.

Contents Biography
 * 1) Biography
 * 2) Research
 * 3) Selected Publications
 * 4) Affiliations
 * 5) References
 * Alona Soschen was born in Moscow, Russia, in a family of prominent cognitive scientists, physiologists and mathematicians. She attended Moscow High School and then majored in linguistics at the Moscow State University. She continued her education as a pre-doctoral student in Israel at the University of Bar Ilan. At that time her research supervised by Dr. Susan Rothstein (syntax) and Prof. Malka Rappoport Hovav (lexical semantics) was taking the inter-disciplinary turn. While in Israel, her work greatly benefited from studying with Prof. Fred Landman (formal semantics, Amsterdam School of Logic). She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Ottawa, Canada, working on Romance languages under the supervision of Prof. Maria-Luisa Rivero and studying with Prof. Paul Hirshbuhler and Prof. Helen Goodluck. Upon completion of her Ph.D. program she was invited to conduct her post-doctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her inter-disciplinary investigations greatly benefited from working closely with Prof. Edward Gibson (computer sciences), Prof. Sylvain Bromberger, Prof. Samuel Jay Keyser, Prof. Suzanne Flynn, and Prof. Irene Heim. Her research was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Kenneth Wexler at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Prof. Noam Chomsky at the Department of Linguistics, MIT.

Research
 * Alona Soschen develops interdisciplinary mathematical analyses of mental processes exemplified as syntactic structures and semantic models in language. Her research combines current results from theoretical linguistics (syntax, semantics, phonology), applied linguistics (studies of language acquisition and speech impairments), philosophy of language, theoretical mathematics, and physics. A considerable part of her work was done through the use of computer simulations of language processing to model the results of studies of how humans construct meaningful sentences based on substantial linguistic data from several language groups (including but not limited to Romance, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic). Her research in the domain of semantics employed application of mathematical methods to the principles of concept formation. In addition to her research for DecipherIQ and patent writing, Alona is a reviewer of books, research papers, and conference articles for IEEE. She presented her research at national and international conferences, published extensively, and developed several international projects.
 * DecipherIQ is an international software development company that applies the results of scientific research to building cognitively based software applications for Natural Language Processing and mental representations analysis of unstructured informatio). Alona Soschen’s research greatly benefited from the knowledge and expertise of Sol Avisar (neuroscience, patent law), Greg Waite (computer science), and Malek Ladki (computer science, business development).

Patents
 * 2013. Alona Soschen, Malek Ladki. Natural Language Processor and Statistical Analyzer for Financial Data.
 * 2012. Natural Language Processor.

Selected Publications


 * 2012. (with V. Slavova). Syntactic Computation and Semantic Merge.
 * 2010. (with V. Slavova). The Argument Based Computation: Solving the Binding Problem. Journal Information Technologies and Knowledge, 4/2.
 * 2009. On Subjects and Predicates, VERLAG.
 * 2008. On the Nature of Syntax. Biolinguistics Journal, 2/2.
 * 2008 Syntax, a System of Efficient Growth, Proceedings of the 7th Conference on the Evolution of Language, Andrew Smith et al (eds), 291-298. World Scientific.
 * 2008 (with V. Slavova). Experimental Support of Argument-based Syntactic Computation, International Journal on Information Theories and Applications (IJ ITA) V.15
 * 2006 Natural Law and the Dynamics of Syntax (Minimalist Program). Linguistics in Potsdam 25. Optimality Theory and Minimalism: a Possible Convergence? Hans Broekhius and Ralf Vogel (eds.): ZAS, Berlin. 35 pages
 * 2006 (with V. Slavova). Information processing in a cognitive model of NLP. International Journal on Information Theories and Applications (IJ ITA), Vol. 10. pp. 2-8
 * 2005 Derivation by phase: Russian Applicative. Canadian Linguistic Association Conference proceedings. 11 pages
 * 2005 Parallel Syntactic and Semantic Treatment. Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Vol.5 No.5. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, pp. 84-96
 * 2005 (with V. Slavova and L. Immes) Using a Non-standard Neural Network Model for Internal Cognitive Representations. Annual Journal, Department of Information Technologies, University of Fulda Publications, Germany
 * 2005 (with V. Slavova). Information systems approach to semantics. Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics International Conference Proceedings, Varna, Bulgaria
 * 2005 (with V. Slavova). Cognitive systems and semantic knowledge. CML Proceedings, Varna, Bulgaria. pp. 119-127
 * 2005 (with V. Polyakov, E. Pechenkova, E. Khomenko) Lexicalization in Russian. The VIII-th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics proceedings

Affiliates


 * MIT, LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY http://web.mit.edu/linguistics


 * MIT, BRAIN AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES http://bcs.mit.edu


 * MIT, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE http://www.eecs.mit.edu


 * UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA, LINGUISTICS http://www.linguistics.uottawa.ca


 * ZAS BERLIN http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/ueberzas.html?&L=1


 * MOSCOW LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY (ALMA MATER) http://en.ukc-sputnik.ru/mslu]


 * BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY


 * NEW BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY, IT


 * MOSCOW NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY http://en.misis.ru

References


 * https://www.google.com/patents/WO2013091075A1?cl=en&dq=alona+soschen&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2dn8Us_XNoXYyQGdsYHQBw&sqi=2&pjf=1&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA
 * http://www.biolinguistics.eu/index.php/biolinguistics/article/viewFile/9/64
 * http://www.nbu.bg/PUBLIC/IMAGES/File/departamenti/informatika/14.pdf]
 * http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/lip/25/LIP25-3soschen.pd
 * http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=Alona%20Soschen&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AAlona%20Soschen
 * http://www.foibg.com/ijitk/ijitk-vol04/ijitk04-2-p06.pdf
 * http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/3231/pdf/LIP25_btr03.pdf
 * http://old.virtualcoglab.ru/pdf/verbs05.pdf
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biolinguistics
 * https://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-210.html