Essays about: "Shannon’s entropy"

Found 2 essays containing the words Shannon’s entropy.

1. 1. Curious Omosa : Does player satisfaction increase the more they learn about their game environment?

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

   Author : Michael John Christopher Wells; [2020]
   Keywords : curiosity; Shannon’s entropy; virtual environment; nyfikenhet; Shannons entropi; virtuell miljö;

   Abstract : The science of curiosity is not fully understood, yet it seems to be a key component of nature which drives both humans and animals to seek out new information. Humans actively seek out to solve problems for the sake of solving them, with evidence suggesting that the seeking and obtaining of new knowledge is itself inherently rewarding. READ MORE

3. 2. Can We Predict Business Cycles With Natural Language Processing?

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Albert Flak; [2020]
   Keywords : Business Cycles; Economic Narratives; Natural Language Processing NLP ; Latent Dirichlet Allocation LDA ; Word Embeddings;

   Abstract : For centuries, many economists have attempted to solve the puzzle of business cycles; what explains them, and is it possible to predict them? The great amount of electronically available textual data, together with the recent advancements in unsupervised natural language processing are bound to offer new ways of analysing these perennial questions. Inspired with the emergence of narrative economics as a new field of economic analysis, I propose a novel research design to computationally extract business cycle sentiment from textual data on economic expectations. READ MORE