I am a mathematician (math/CS PhD, physics MSc)
working in information theory and discrete stochastic
processes. I am also interested in theoretical
properties of statistical and neural language models.
I work at
the IPI PAN, with the
Statistical Analysis and
Modeling Group, but occasionally I
collaborate also with
the Linguistic Engineering
Group.
Here is a sample of my interests:
(in English)
(po polsku)
If you are interested
in a PhD under my supervision, please contact
me.
My email address is ldebowsk@ipipan.waw.pl and my phone number is (+48) 22 3800 553.
Selected publications:
- Book "Information Theory Meets Power Laws: Stochastic Processes and Language Models" at Wiley (2021); it received the prize of the Committee on Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
- Article "A Refutation of Finite-State Language Models through Zipf’s Law for Factual Knowledge" in Entropy (2021).
- Article "Can Menzerath’s law be a criterion of complexity in communication?" in PLOS ONE (2021) with Iván G. Torre and Antoni Hernández-Fernández.
- Article "Universal Coding and Prediction on Ergodic Random Points" in the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic (2022) with Tomasz Steifer.
- Article "Universal Densities Exist for Every Finite Reference Measure" in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2023). Erratum.
Work-related items:
- profiles: ORCID, arXiv, GitHub, DBLP, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, LinkedIn, Twitter
- slides, teaching, CV (contains the complete publication list)
- PhD students: Tomasz Steifer (defended 29.09.2020, co-supervised by Dariusz Kalociński)
Nerd's interest:
- Jak się wzbogacić prawie na pewno? (How to get rich almost surely?)
- Charty zostały... czyli o generowaniu wierszy sylabicznych. (On automatic generation of rhymed poems.)
- Phonetic transcription and computational poetry.
- The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité, transcribed into IPA symbols by me.
- The second version of my Perl script for extracting genealogical trees from GEDCOM databases (Ancestris, Gramps, Family Tree Maker) and typesetting them in Latex using the genealogytree.sty package: ZIP archive, which contains the gedcom2latex.pl script and an example of usage.
