Compressing learner language: An information-theoretic measure of complexity in SLA production data

Developing Toward an SLA: Understanding Data Complexity

A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a business operations concept that is sometimes inappropriately applied to engineering development. When an SLA is not converted to engineering requirements, development occurs blindly and testing is probably done against some of the values specified in the SLA. The result is higher risk and higher cost. This paper illustrates some concepts concerning data com...

Assessing Complexity of Neuronal Multiunit Activity by Information Theoretic Measure

Abstract—This paper provides a quantitative measure of the time-varying multiunit neuronal spiking activity using an entropy based approach. To verify the status embedded in the neuronal activity of a population of neurons, the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) is used to isolate the inherent spiking activity of MUA. Due to the de-correlating property of DWT, the spiking activity would be preser...

an investigation of accuracy and complexity across different proficiency levels in written narrative task

abstract this quasi-experimental study was aimed at examining the impact of storyline complexity on the grammatical accuracy and complexity of advanced and intermediate efl learners. a total of 65 advanced and intermediate efl learners were selected from iran language institute (ili). an intact group including 35 intermediate participants and another intact group with 30 advanced participants ...

An Information Theoretic Measure for Robot Expressivity

This paper presents a principled way to think about articulated movement for artificial agents and a measurement of platforms that produce such movement. In particular, in human-facing scenarios, the shape evolution of robotic platforms will become essential in creating systems that integrate – and communicate – with human counterparts. This paper provides a tool to measure the expressive capac...

Quantization with an Information-Theoretic Distortion Measure