Tim Fernando

As a piece of language, a narrative may be regarded as a sequence S of sentences about a sequence E of events. The possibility that the order of E does not align with S (violating so-called iconicity of sequence) is one of many challenges in understanding narratives. Others include the variety of granularities and the … Read more

The aim of this project is to understand the interplay between randomness and optimization in the choice of a Markov decision process and of a policy, working with simple examples such as tic tac toe and variants. Particular attention will be paid to entropy and its maximization.

This project is intended to build on, and further develop an Irish-language AAC system that Rían Errity developed last year. The goal is to develop a facility that allows the individual user to design their own personal boards and adapt the system to their own context and requirements.

Programming connected with an interactive platform for learning Irish under the ABAIR Project.

Tense and aspect are important considerations for temporal reasoning in natural language processing (Jurafsky and Martin 2023, chapter 22). The entry for tense and aspect in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy provides a useful overview of the subject, ranging over reference points, Aktionsart and inertia. The aim of this project is to encode these ideas … Read more

The Zebra Puzzle is a well-known constraint satisfaction problem that ChatGPT knows about. But can ChatGPT solve the puzzle or problems like it step by step in accordance with the rules of logic? The aim of this project is to investigate how far ChatGPT is able to reason about such problems, and how ideas such … Read more