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Ian Simpson
dblp:326/4237
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2022
0000-0003-2609-2188ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Data mining · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Deep learning architectures and training · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Data mining
sports analytics |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Seq2Event: Learning the Language of Soccer Using Transformer-based Match Event Prediction · KDD 2022 |
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training › sequence modeling
transformer-based sequence modeling |
0.2 | 1 | 2022 | Seq2Event: Learning the Language of Soccer Using Transformer-based Match Event Prediction · KDD 2022 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
transformer · 1.1RNN · 1.1
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Seq2Event: Learning the Language of Soccer Using Transformer-based Match Event PredictionabstractSoccer is a sport characterised by open and dynamic play, with player actions and roles aligned according to team strategies simultaneously and at multiple temporal scales with high spatial freedom. This complexity presents an analytics challenge, which to date has largely been solved by decomposing the game according to specific criteria to analyse specific problems. We propose a more holistic approach, utilising Transformer or RNN components in the novel Seq2Event model, in which the next match event is predicted given prior match events and context. We show metric creation using a general purpose context-aware model as a deployable practical application, and demonstrate development of the poss-util metric using a Seq2Event model. Summarising the expectation of key attacking events (shot, cross) during each possession, our metric is shown to correlate over matches (r=0.91, n=190) with the popular xG metric. Example practical application of poss-util to analyse behaviour over possessions and matches is made. Potential in sports with stronger sequentiality, such as rugby union, is discussed. Ian Simpson, Ryan Beal, Duncan Locke, Timothy J. Norman |
KDD | 1 |