surprisal

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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

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

Two objects were contemplated by him: one, the surprisal of the British works at the north end of New York Island; the other the capture or destruction of Delancey's corps of refugees in Morrisania.

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

"This surprisal," says M. Darn, "caused inexpressible joy in Venice; after so many disasters there was seen a gleans of hope."

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Black, Robert