Semi-naive

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Partially naive.

    "Shy, naive boy meeting semi-shy, semi-naive girl."

  2. 2
    Predominantly naive but including modifications that improve efficiency.

    "We would like to know if correlating some of the disjoint (and conditionally independent) feature subsets of a semi-naive Bayes can improve its predictive accuracy."

Example

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"Shy, naive boy meeting semi-shy, semi-naive girl."

Etymology

From semi- + naive.

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