10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SURPRISINGNESS»
Discover the use of
surprisingness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
surprisingness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Leading Edge Research in Cognitive Psychology
Three sentences from a given category were included in each list. Procedure.
The procedure in Experiments 2a and 2b was identical that of the surprisingness-
rating condition of Experiment 1, with the exception that retrieval strategy was not
...
2
Web Service Mining: Application to Discoveries of Biological ...
iteration based on the chosen number of operation interfaces per domain, no, we
calculate uniqueness, diversity, surprisingness and weight product for
compositions discovered in the iteration. These values are then normalized using
the ...
George Zheng, Athman Bouguettaya, 2010
3
The Tomb of Jesus and His Family?: Exploring Ancient Jewish ...
The above examples illustrate the contention that the surprisingness values
assigned by the RR approach to the various configurations are not necessarily
monotonic with our perceptions. In other words, whenever the RR ap- proach is
used ...
James H. Charlesworth, 2013
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Statistics As Principled Argument
In this illuminating volume, Robert P. Abelson delves into the too-often dismissed problems of interpreting quantitative data and then presenting them in the context of a coherent story about one's research.
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Quality Measures in Data Mining
We consider form dependent measures based on peculiarity, surprisingness, and
conciseness. The neighborhood-based unexpectedness measure [10] is based
on peculiarity. The intuition for this method is that if a rule has a different ...
Fabrice Guillet, Howard J. Hamilton, 2007
6
Analysing and Aiding Decision Processes
Column 4 contrasts the surprisingness ratings subjects gave their own stories at
the time they wrote them with the average surprisingness ratings given to them
when read by another group (of 10-12 subjects per story). Subjects who wrote ...
P. Humphreys, O. Svenson, A. Vári, 2000
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Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery with Evolutionary Algorithms
Two relatively-simple objective measures of rule surprisingness (or interest-
ingness) were proposed by [Freitas l998]. The basic idea of one of these
measures is that a rule is considered surprising to the extent that it predicts a
class different ...
8
Go Figure! New Directions in Advertising Rhetoric
Surprisingness occurs when an element differs from the elements that preceded
it in simultaneous or successive element pairings within a work. The degree of
surprisingness should be directly related to the number of times that elements ...
Edward F. McQuarrie, Barbara J. Phillips, 2008
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Artificial Intelligence, Automated Reasoning, and Symbolic ...
share many concepts in their construction paths, their definitions are likely to be
similar, and the relationship between them will be less surprising, so they score
less for surprisingness. For example, in figure 2, there are 7 concepts involved in
...
10
Handbook of Motivation at School
The following examples may represent more or less unique sources of interest:
surprisingness, coherence, concreteness, vividness, emotiveness, ease of
comprehension, simple vocabulary, and engaging themes (death, power, sex).
Only a ...
Kathryn Wentzel, Allan Wigfield, David Miele, 2009
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SURPRISINGNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
surprisingness is used in the context of the following news items.
Small print: Books for young people
In the realm of young adult novels, it's hard to beat Elizabeth Wein for originality, substance and sheer surprisingness — and Black Dove White Raven ... «Toronto Star, Mar 15»
16 Surprise Albums, Ranked in Order of Surprisingness
Everyone knows the music industry has been in trouble ever since home taping started killing music back in the '70s. With people now happy to pirate music, the ... «Yahoo Music, Feb 15»
Best writing of the year is in the eye of the reader
There is the kind of imagination, subtlety and surprisingness that distinguishes the best fiction and poetry often needs to cede precedence to ideas. The editor of ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 15»
Power Rankings: Kentucky's pressure, the debut of Tank Shots, more
Mountaineers Facts in Ascending Order of Surprisingness: 1. They didn't work on their press much in the preseason. “Honestly, we kind of put the press in two ... «SI.com, Nov 14»
Houston Rockets' Most Surprising Players of the Early Season
Houston has players who represent both types. I list them here in order of surprisingness. The criteria is completely subjective. Begin Slideshow ». « Prev. 2 of 7. «Bleacher Report, Nov 14»
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This metric quantified the “information content,” or “surprisingness,” of a gesture. Generally, the most secure gestures were the most complex. Some of these ... «Fortune, Jun 14»
Callow's Christ connection
... intention with the play is “to restore, I suppose, some sense of the surprisingness of Jesus and the extraordinary spiritual enterprise that he was engaged in. «The Stage, Mar 13»
Martha and a 'food crusade' farce to forget
If we had a Surprisedometer (that is, a machine for registering the surprisingness of information), here at the Evening Standard someone would even now be ... «Evening Standard, Jun 12»
Hey, Physics, Get Real!
Invented in 1948 by the mathematician Claude Shannon, information theory is a method for quantifying the improbability—the surprisingness, if you will—of a ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar 11»
YouTube Debacle: OK Go Frontman Damian Kulash Breaks it Down …
It's hard to put a start date on anything, but I'd say certainly the one that sort of caught our attention in terms of surprisingness of numbers or downloads was the ... «Mashable, Jan 10»
