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
He is so honourably merciful to women in surprisal, that only that makes him an excellent courtier.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
As to the moderation of this war-party, they considered it assumed, to put them off their guard against some more favourable opportunity for a surprisal.
From The Great Salt Lake Trail by Inman, Henry
