Samuel Zarbock

Current

• Interaction Architect at Visiant

Past

• IT Transformation Consultant at CartaSi
• Information Architect at Kora
• Computational Linguistic R&D at Kallideas S.p.A.

• Project Manager at Kallideas S.p.A.
• Web and KM Consultant at The Net Planet S.p.A.
• Owner at Biblioteca di Letteratura Impubblicabile
• Web Designer at Alchera Group

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Education

• Università degli Studi di Milano
• Università degli Studi di Milano
• Scansoft

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog

Samuel Zarbock’s Summary

I'd like to obtain ordered results from apparently chaotic data.
While manipulating, classifying and clustering numbers or words, I set large amounts of data to be presented to users in both usable and interactive way.
What I actually look for in IT projects I'm working on, is a high
quality interaction between the user and the information.

I've been working for 2,5 years exclusively on texts, implementing chatterbots and dialogic AI systems. After this experience I dicovered myself deeply interested into textual analysis of large corpora. This is what I am currently exploring in private projects.

Samuel Zarbock’s Specialties:

knowledge discovery in DataBase, natural language searches, statistical linguistic analysis

Samuel Zarbock’s Experience

• Interaction Architect

  Visiant

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Business Projects Improvement and re-design.

• IT Transformation Consultant

  CartaSi

  (Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

  April 2008 — February 2009 (11 months)

  ITIL 3, Service Desk, CMDB, Service Catalogue. SharePoint as Internal Unit Presentation Tool. Problem Determination and Solution.

• Information Architect

  Kora

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2008 — April 2008 (2 months)

  Customer Goals, User Experience, Audience and Scenario, Competitive Analysis, Site Content Grouping and Labelling, Functional Requirements Specification, Architectural Blueprints, Layout Grids and Design Sketches, Prototyping

• Computational Linguistic R&D

  Kallideas S.p.A.

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2005 — February 2008 (2 years 5 months)

  POS tagging, chunk parsing, speech acts, text analysis, semantically related words extraction, literature genome project, web accessibility for cognitive disabilities, digital virtual assistants programming and designing.
  >> Pragmatic theory: linguistic acts
  >> Discourse Modes
  >> Content Accessibility
  >> Italian Vocabulary on DB

• Project Manager

  Kallideas S.p.A.

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 3 months)

  Web applications implementation, IVR applications implementation, Web and IVR entertainment, Project Management, Brown-Forman MAS Bartenders Community, Masterfoods "Vinci e Rivinci", Sergio Tacchini, Nokia Days MMS, Fastweb "Collaborative Writing and Print on Demand", ZeroNove Message Voice Box, CartaSi "Con Visa ogni giorno è un regalo", Peck foodhall e-commerce site
  >> Linguistic Interaction Design
  >> GUI Accessibility

• Web and KM Consultant

  The Net Planet S.p.A.

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2001 — June 2004 (2 years 8 months)

  Web applications accessibility, CNEL KB and Web integration, data mining, data aggregation, CNEL "Contratti Nazionali del Lavoro" DB, CNEL "Bilancio dello Stato" DB
  >> GUI Accessibility

• Owner

  Biblioteca di Letteratura Impubblicabile

  (Entertainment industry)

  January 2002 — March 2004 (2 years 3 months)

  WebSite that collected different types of hypertexts written by me and Gherardo Bortolotti, the second owner.
  Studies on the hypertext rethorical structures, implementation of Web interaction experiments, essays on Man-Machine Interaction.
  The Web Site obtained, among others, a "Site of the Week" mention from "RAI Educational", the cultural promoter direction of the italian public television broadcast.

• Web Designer

  Alchera Group

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  November 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 1 month)

Samuel Zarbock’s Education

• Università degli Studi di Milano

  Foreign Languages and Literature 1991 — 1998

• Università degli Studi di Milano

  Data Mining (Knowledge Discovery in Data Bases) 2009

• Scansoft

  Voice User Interface Design 2005

Additional Information

Samuel Zarbock’s Websites:

• My Blog

Samuel Zarbock’s Interests:

culinary arts, literature, linguistic studies

Samuel Zarbock’s Groups:

•    Text Analytics
•    Natural Language Processing People
•    Lingua
•    Università degli Studi di Milano

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