How to Use classifier in a Sentence

classifier

noun
  • And some, perhaps, with flaws—which would be clues to the classifier’s knowledge gaps.
    Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 6 July 2017
  • The team used those photos and open-source image classifier files from Google to train the model and the custom camera system to sense and record trains passing.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The chip uses a simple form of machine learning called a naive Bayesian classifier.
    The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Since such attributes are hard to detect from keywords alone, the app also collects signals from users to train its classifiers.
    IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2021
  • But since the Rohingya genocide, Facebook has built a hate-speech classifier in Burmese by pouring resources toward the project.
    Billy Perrigo, Time, 26 Nov. 2019
  • The fastText language classifier was used trained on a simplified word list from Wikipedia.
    Daniel Wolfe, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But that’s a lot easier than building a classifier for something like hate speech.
    Nilay Patel, The Verge, 19 Jan. 2021
  • As scammers develop new methods to trick the AI … YouTube engineers will update the classifiers to overcome those tricks.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The facts in Li (undisputed by the whistleblower) were that the whistleblower’s submission was rejected by the WBO classifier and was never sent to the field.
    Dean Zerbe, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • On a landscape-mode display, accuracy of the classifiers was much lower, with a first-guess success rate of only 40.8 percent.
    Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2018
  • Plus, there’s a good chance that many of the singles putting their Myers-Briggs classifier in their app bios aren’t quite grasping what their personality type even means.
    Allie Volpe, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
  • For example, Meta chose not to build a classifier to detect minors under 13.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2023
  • What’s new with this type of AI is that, historically, these technologies were classifiers.
    Todd Moore, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • In one document from May 2020, an employee said a hate speech text classifier that was available wasn’t being used or maintained.
    NBC News, 18 Nov. 2021
  • GANs, then, naturally create classifiers that can be used to tell the difference between real and fake.
    Nick Thieme, Slate Magazine, 21 July 2017
  • But OpenAI warned that its classifier is not very reliable when analyzing texts of less than 1,000 words—so good luck with those phishing emails.
    Byjeremy Kahn, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
  • In fact, the problems with Facebook’s ad tool are not mysterious or complicated, and they aren’t buried in layers of machine-learning classifiers or neural nets.
    Will Oremus, Slate Magazine, 20 Sep. 2017
  • In one case, Ouster fed intensity and depth data from a drive around San Francisco into a pixel-level classifier.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2018
  • Take one of its most common applications, as an image classifier.
    Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2019
  • Of course, these initial examples can’t cover everything a classifier encounters in the wild.
    Katy Steinmetz, Time, 8 July 2019
  • The method works for any classifier — whether it’s designed to categorize text, images or numerical data.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
  • This way, the system ended up with different certainty levels on different classifiers.
    Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 16 July 2018
  • Before it was shut down, the AI classifier performed particularly poorly for pieces of text under 1,000 characters written in non-English languages.
    Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 25 July 2023
  • And that accuracy is achieved with really simple classifiers.
    Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Finally, the image classifier itself was tuned to improve its performance.
    Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 27 June 2018
  • So Adaptive and Microsoft are continuing to improve the classifier.
    Katie Palmer, STAT, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Given a single facial image, a classifier could correctly distinguish between gay and heterosexual men in 81% of cases, and in 74% of cases for women.
    John Paul Brammer, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Blakeley Payne Another activity that explains algorithmic bias is the training of a cat-dog classifier.
    Jenny Anderson, Quartz, 4 Sep. 2019
  • So those two factors — the lack of ambiguity and data availability — allow classifiers to perform really well.
    Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The best performing aggregate score classifier performed slightly better—coming in at 0.65.
    IEEE Spectrum, 17 May 2023

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