How to Use classifier in a Sentence

classifier

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  • 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
  • On her laptop, Acosta fires up a demonstration of Jigsaw’s new classifiers.
    — Billy Perrigo, TIME, 15 Apr. 2024
  • That was why the machine learning classifiers had been able to correctly ascertain the ranks of particular curves.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • And our deep learning classifiers have struggled to understand enough about semantic composition—the parts of an image that give it a particular meaning—and context to make those calls successfully.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • 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

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