Course: Information Theory

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Course title Information Theory
Course code KOL/TEIN
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory, Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Andres Jan, prof. RNDr. dr hab. DSc.
  • Zámečník Hadwiger Lukáš, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
(1) Introduction to information theory Data compression (2) Probability and entropy (3) Shannon's source coding theorem (4) Types of code Communication (5) Noisy-channel capacity (6) Noisy-channel coding theorem (7) Other types of code Probability (8) Entailment models (9) Decision theory (10) Bayes's theorem Neuron networks (11) Hopfield network (12) Multi-level network

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Methods of Written Work
Learning outcomes
The course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental of information theory. Following Theory of communication, a new aspect of the communication process is introduced - information. Students will find out about information-related features of the language signal transmission and get familiar with the basic mathematical apparatus used for information analysis (entropy, redundancy, encoding/decoding, Bayes' theorem etc.). They will get exposed to practical text analysis using mathematical text analysis, a skill they can re-use in a number of other courses or elsewhere. The main topics covered in the course are: introduction to the theory of information, data compression, communication, probability, and neuron networks.
Conceptual analysis Scholarly text analysis Scholarly text analysis - other than CZ Presentation
Prerequisites
Basic reading English is expected as the key texts are available in English only No prerequisite courses

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Written exam, Student performance, Analysis of linguistic, Dialog

(1) regular class attendance (80%) (2) regular homework / reading assignments (3) one-to-one discussion of a selected text (students are expected to be knowledgeable in selected topics and know the extended/recommended literature)
Recommended literature
  • Eco, U. Teorie sémiotiky. Praha: Argo 2009..
  • Gleick, J. (2013). Informace. Praha.
  • Kvasnička, V. - Pospíchal, J. (2006). Matematická logika. Bratislava.
  • MacKay, D. J. C. (2003). Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms. Cambridge.
  • Neubauer, J. ? Sedlačík, M. ? Kříž, O. (2012). Základy statistiky. Praha.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): General Lingvistics and Theory of Communication (2014) Category: Philological sciences 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): General Lingvistics (2022) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): General Lingvistics (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -