classifier

[ klas-uh-fahy-er ]

noun

1. a person or thing that classifies.
2. a device for separating solids of different characteristics by controlled rates of settling.
3. Grammar. (in Chinese, Japanese, and other languages) a word or morpheme that corresponds to a semantic class of nouns and regularly accompanies any noun of that class in certain syntactic constructions, such as those of numeration.

Word History and Origins

Origin of classifier¹

First recorded in 1810–20; classify + -er ¹

Example Sentences

They plug the generative model into standard statistical formulas to directly construct a classifier instead of learning it from samples, as was done with discriminative approaches.

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The chatbot responds, and a safety classifier rates the toxicity of its response, rewarding the red-team model based on that rating.

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The team then let the robot carry out the scooping task on its own, using the newly learned grounding classifiers.

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The study analysis adopted the definition of 'toxicity' provided by state-of-the-art classifier software, which considers toxicity as "a rude, disrespectful or unreasonable comment likely to make someone leave a discussion."

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Conventional machine learning-based image classifiers have achieved a great level of accuracy by analyzing an image as a whole, and then labeling it a certain object category.

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