surprisal
IPA: sɝprˈaɪzʌɫ
noun
- (obsolete, military) A surprise attack or ambush; a sudden or unexpected assault.
- (obsolete) A sudden coming-upon someone or something unexpectedly or unawares.
- (obsolete) A surprising event or occurrence.
- (obsolete) The feeling caused by being surprised; surprise, shock, amazement.
- An information measure as equal in bits (binary digits) to the base-2 log of 1 over the probability, with the result that the number of choices equals 2ⁿ where n is the number of bits.
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Examples of "surprisal" in Sentences
- A want of a due sense of surprisal into known sins; [4.]
- In many other papers and books, too numerous to be listed here, the same quantity is often referred to as “surprisal.”
- However little Quentin thought himself indebted to the King of France, who, in contriving the surprisal of the Countess Isabelle by William de la
- Surrounded by hostile tribes, whose mode of warfare is by ambush and surprisal, he is always prepared for fight, and lives with his weapons in his hands.
- In one place we read of the surprisal of an Indian fort in the night, when the wigwams were wrapped in flames, and the miserable inhabitants shot down and slain in attempting to escape, “all being despatched and ended in the course of an hour.”
- According to Shannon surprisal, which is the information measure that D&M use, D&M’s exogenous information measures the amount of information in the success-or-failure outcome of the baseline search, not the amount of information in the search parameters.
- These hypotheses and a similar surprisal hypothesis are tested using the self-paced reading methodology in Japanese, a language with a few nice properties like relatively free word order, which makes controlling the stimuli slightly easier than it is in English.
- Every one of his followers started up at the command, and mingled as they were among their late allies, prepared too for such a surprisal, each had, in an instant, his next neighbour by the collar, while his right hand brandished a broad dagger that glimmered against lamplight and moonshine.
- The same fashion in their doors the Greeks, they say, had of old universally, which appears from their comedies, where those that are going out make a noise at the door within, to give notice to those that pass by or stand near the door, that the opening the door into the street might occasion no surprisal.