Essays about: "surprisal"
Found 3 essays containing the word surprisal.
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1. What comes next? : Investigating the neural correlates of predictability during conversation with fMRI
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistikAbstract : The notion that prediction plays a role in language processing is getting less controversial, however research and discussion is ongoing as to the nature and extent of its involvement. Previous studies have mainly focused on prediction during comprehension in restricted paradigms. READ MORE
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2. Lights, Camera, BERT! : Autonomizing the Process of Reading andInterpreting Swedish Film Scripts
University essay from Uppsala universitet/DatalogiAbstract : In this thesis, the autonomization of extracting information from PDFs of Swedish film scriptsthrough various machine learning techniques and named entity recognition (NER) is explored.Furthermore, it is explored if labeled data needed for the NER tasks can be reduced to some degreewith the goal of saving time. READ MORE
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3. Articulation rate as a means of distributing information and its effect on the N400-component
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistikAbstract : Information theoretical approaches to language state that the most efficient communication occurs when the amount of information transmitted is distributed as uniformly as possible over time. Previous research has shown that speakers tend to adhere to strategies for distributing information efficiently, using mechanisms at multiple linguistic levels. READ MORE
