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
  • But that’s a lot easier than building a classifier for something like hate speech.
    Nilay Patel, The Verge, 19 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • The chip uses a simple form of machine learning called a naive Bayesian classifier.
    The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Take one of its most common applications, as an image classifier.
    Jordana Cepelewicz, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2019
  • The fastText language classifier was used trained on a simplified word list from Wikipedia.
    Daniel Wolfe, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • That’s because OpenAI has open-sourced the AI classifiers.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • But with open source models, these classifiers can easily be stripped away and the guardrails that might be trained into a model can also easily be jailbroken.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 July 2026
  • 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
  • What’s new with this type of AI is that, historically, these technologies were classifiers.
    Todd Moore, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • For example, Meta chose not to build a classifier to detect minors under 13.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 27 Nov. 2023
  • And that accuracy is achieved with really simple classifiers.
    Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Once the data was placed into categories and labeled, classifiers were trained that could take new input text and place it into one of the existing categories.
    IEEE Spectrum, 26 May 2024
  • That leaves classifiers with limitless discretion to decide what is or is not a matter of national security.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Of course, these initial examples can’t cover everything a classifier encounters in the wild.
    Katy Steinmetz, Time, 8 July 2019
  • GANs, then, naturally create classifiers that can be used to tell the difference between real and fake.
    Nick Thieme, Slate Magazine, 21 July 2017
  • The method works for any classifier — whether it’s designed to categorize text, images or numerical data.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The classifiers used a unanimous voting approach to reduce false positives and ensure high precision.
    Tor Constantino, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • This way, the system ended up with different certainty levels on different classifiers.
    Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 16 July 2018
  • 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
  • Finally, the image classifier itself was tuned to improve its performance.
    Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 27 June 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
  • Hot colors show areas that the classifier determined with high probability to have been painted by the artist associated with the work.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This process was repeated many times, with the classifier repeatedly evaluated against a test dataset until its performance satisfied us.
    IEEE Spectrum, 26 May 2024

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