Re: Semantically Unpredictable Sentences (=?X-UNKNOWN?Q?T=F3th_L=E1szl=F3?= )

Subject: Re: Semantically Unpredictable Sentences
From:    =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?T=F3th_L=E1szl=F3?=  <tothl(at)INF.U-SZEGED.HU>
Date:    Tue, 21 Jan 2003 10:15:15 +0100

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Brent Edwards wrote:

> Isn't he referring to sentences that consist of words with low (no)
> predictability using only semantic information?
>
Sure. But how can he formalize "semantic unpredictability"? I mean, the
notion of "statistical unpredictability" is well-defined by formulas like
entropy, perplexity and such. But how can one state that the sentences he
generates are semantically unpredictable? According to what measure?

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