classifier

American  

[klas-uh-fahy-er] / ˈklæs əˌfaɪ ər /

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.

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Etymology

Origin of classifier

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

Example Sentences

"A liver fibrosis classifier is distinct from a cancer classifier. This is a unique, disease-specific test built from the same underlying platform."

From Science Daily

"My team is currently developing a tear-protein-based classifier that can differentiate brain cancer patients from healthy volunteers with high levels of accuracy," she said.

From BBC

An algorithm known as a classifier automatically categorizes content, allowing Character.AI to identify words that might violate its rules and filter conversations.

From Los Angeles Times

The MIT team's insight is that this probability distribution also defines a generative model upon which a classifier can be constructed.

From Science Daily

They also want to explore the use of a large language model as the toxicity classifier.

From Science Daily