2024 Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Department of Social and Human Sciences Graduate major in Social and Human Sciences
Graduate Lecture in Cognition, Mathematics and Information F1A
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Social and Human Sciences
- Instructor(s)
- Hilofumi Yamamoto / Mika Ebara
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 7-8 Wed
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- SHS.M443
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
The main topic of this course is "discrete structures." We will deal with the basic concepts and applications of discrete structures through discussions, group work, lectures, and exercises. By providing students with definitions, examples, and analysis methods for "graphs," "combinatorial analysis," "algebraic systems," "formal languages," "ordered sets," "propositional calculus," and "Boolean algebra," students will hone the skills to represent and analyze discrete structures mathematically.
The purpose of this course is for students to hone the skills to select the appropriate discrete structure for representing and analyzing a given object, representing the object as a distinct structure, analyzing the structure to derive results and concisely communicate with others the results of analyzing structures.
Course description and aims
Learn the following abilities by taking this lecture.
1) You can read essential literature papers.
2) You can search for a good paper of linguistics and read by yourself.
3) One language modeling method can be used.
4) It is possible to calculate and consider the basic unit of the language.
Keywords
Linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology experiment, mathematical analysis, modeling, experimental design, statistical processing, language processing
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
We will read only one paper in 7 classes, but each section contains essential things.
You will learn each part of the paper consisting such as title, headline, chart, figure caption, literature, introduction, conclusion, method, result, and discussion.
Imagine the whole of the information read from the chart.
Read the title of each document and imagine what area it is.
We will read a description of objectives in the introduction, and guess which area of linguistics is related.
We will outline the basic contents and prepare areas which we will encounter in grammar, vocabulary, voice, dialect, language change, etc. of linguistics.
We will learn the contents on phonetics/phonology and think about contrastive linguistics.
We will read the contents in conclusion, and we will understand what extent we were able to achieve the purpose.
We will reproduce the procedure written in the method.
We will examine the statistical method written in the result and consider whether it is appropriate usage.
We will examine how many contents a paper includes in the discussion part and what the author of the paper addresses while looking for other literature.
We will prepare each exercise according to the discussion paper.
As a final report, we will introduce an excellent paper which we have been seeking.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | How to read a dissertation. | Find a paper similar to a theme. |
| Class 2 | Outline of linguistics. | Read the title of the document and imagine what kind of thesis it is. |
| Class 3 | Phonetics and phonology, contrast linguistics. | Describe the phonological features of vowel/consonant. |
| Class 4 | The methodology of language analysis | Describe the type of methodology of language analysis. |
| Class 5 | The exercise of statistic analysis for language. | Create an exercise using statistical methods used in linguistics. |
| Class 6 | Language statistics analysis exercise. | State the definitions of algebraic systems |
| Class 7 | Describing discussion, and significance of language research. How to write the final report | Read the description of the discussion and address the significance of language research. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
The Study of Language 6th Edition Author: George Yule, University of Hawaii, Manoa ISBN: 9781316606759
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Course materials are posted on T2SCHOLA and/or provided during the classes.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Assessment will be based on “summary reports” written during each class (50% in total) and the final examination (50%).
If the assignments for each session and final report are insufficient, the course may not be passed.
Related courses
- SHS.M442 ： Graduate Lecture in Cognition, Mathematics and Information S1B
- SHS.M444 ： Graduate Lecture in Cognition, Mathematics and Information F1B
- SHS.M461 ： Graduate Methodologies in Cognition, Mathematics and Information S1
- SHS.L411 ： Trans-disciplinary Exercise in Social and Human Sciences S1A
- SHS.L412 ： Trans-disciplinary Exercise in Social and Human Sciences S1B
Prerequisites
Students must have knowledge of the fundamental of linguistics or attend Linguistics A/B opened as undergraduate subjects.
Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).
Hilofumi Yamamoto, yamamoto.h.al[at]m.titech.ac.jp
Mika Ebara, ebara[at]ila.titech.ac.jp
Office hours
Professor’s office: Rm. 207, 2nd Floor., West Bldg. 1. Contact by email in advance to schedule an appointment.
Other
The lecture is in English.
Students will be expected to present and speak entirely in English.