From March to May (2025).

Lecture and Labs will be in the Campus Nord of UPC. Here you have a map of the campus

• Slot 1 (default for theory). Tuesday from 8:00 to 10:00 (room A5205).
• Slot 2 (default for lab). Thursday from 8:00 to 10:00 (room A5205). This slot can be used for regular lectures. Labs will take place every 2-3 weeks approximately. This slot will also be used for theory lectures.

The room for both slots is in the A5 building.

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This is just a tentative schedule (it may be updated).

March 4. Topic 1. Introduction

March 6. –

March 11. Topic 1. Continuation. Topic 2. Zipf’s law of abbreviation and compression.

March 13. Topic 2. Zipf’s law of abbreviation and compression. That lecture will provide the foundations for the 1st lab session.
Please, check the slides of the 1st lecture before that lecture.

March 18. Topic 3. Information theory.

March 20. Lab 1.

March 25. Topic 3. Information theory.

March 27. –

April 1. Topic 4. Theory of power laws

April 3. – (mid-term exams)

April 8. – (mid-term exams)

April 10. Topic 4. Theory of power laws. Exponents of power-laws.

April 15. – (Easter)

April 17. – (Easter)

April 22. Topic 5. Models of Zipf’s law for word frequencies.

April 24. –

April 29. Cancelled because of Spain-wide power blackout.

May 1. (holiday).

May 6. Topic 5. Zipfian optimization models of communication.

May 8. Lab 2 + Topic 6. Correlations in symbolic sequences. Correlations in texts.

May 13. Topic 7. Introduction to dependency syntax. Formal constraints on syntactic dependency structures.

FROM HERE ONWARDS THE SCHEDULE MAY CHANGE

May 15. –

May 20. Topic 8. Word order theory.

May 22. Lab 3. Practice with LAL.

May 27. Topic 8. Word order theory.

May 29. Topic 8. Word order theory / Topic 9. Conclusion

Meetings for the research project.

Models of Menzerath’s law