surprisal
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This analysis revealed that sentences with higher surprisal generate higher responses in the brain.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024
They also used a computational technique to quantify each sentence's "surprisal," or how uncommon it is compared to other sentences.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024
This is consistent with previous studies showing people have more difficulty processing sentences with higher surprisal, the researchers say.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024
As Wilde left it, it was the latter part of a play in one act in blank verse, beginning with the surprisal of the lovers by the husband.
From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Arthur Ransome
Were not you, Mr Beamont, and you, Collins both accessary to the horrid plot, for the surprisal of this fort and island?
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott
