Tomas Mikolov

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Tomas Mikolov

natural language processing

  • developed Word2Vec, a groundbreaking technique for learning vector representations of words
  • became a senior research scientist at the Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics
  • works on machine learning and deep learning techniques

Tomáš Mikolov is a Czech computer scientist specializing in machine learning and deep learning techniques. He is well-known for his work on Word2Vec, a technique that revolutionized the field of natural language processing.

Milestones

  • The Equation That Made Words Do Math
    The Deep Learning Revolution Research
    The Equation That Made Words Do Math

    A Google researcher discovered that neural networks could learn word meanings so precisely that 'King minus Man plus Woman equals Queen' — and it actually worked.

    2013