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My two latest research projects required all of those things. More specific, I tried (and failed) to model movement in an environment as a particle in an electr
by probably_wrong 11y ago
My two latest research projects required all of those things. More specific, I tried (and failed) to model movement in an environment as a particle in an electric field. Defining this model required physics of a particle, and optimizing the parameters required differential equations. A sub-section of the project (not done by me) defined a grammar, which required some properties over a semi-ring, which I remember from Algebra.
- archgoon 11y agoThat sounds interesting; can you provide a link to your homepage? Or describe the project in more detail?
- probably_wrong 11y agoWell, the first part of the project got scrapped, because it turns out people behave like a particle only under trivial conditions (or I modeled the problem wrong, that's also possible). The idea was that, since we know which target is attracting a pedestrian's attention, we could model both as a particle being attracted to a target (and being repelled by distractors). Whatever little remained of that idea ended up in another paper[1]. As for the grammar, the best I have is this paper[2]. I apologize for not having anything less dry to read than papers - as I'm not looking for another job, I don't feel the need to get off my ivory tower too often. [1] http://ivan-titov.org/papers/emnlp13.pdf http://ivan-titov.org/papers/emnlp13.pdf (poster: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~villalba/publications/refexp_resolution_poster.pdf http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~villalba/publications/refexp...) [2] http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~koller/papers/chart-gre-14.pdf http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~koller/papers/chart-gre-14.p...