surprisal
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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
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 analysis revealed that sentences with higher surprisal generate higher responses in the brain.
From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2024
Everything was to be conducted with secrecy and by the way of surprisal.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington
The surprisal of this was entrusted to Tarleton, who, with his dragoons was in Webster's advanced guard.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Irving, Washington
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
