Meanings
comparative more semi-naive · superlative most semi-naive · alternative semi-naïf · alternative seminaive · alternative seminaïve · alternative semi-naïve
- Partially naive.
They are semi-civilized and semi-naive people.
1985, Tejvir Singh, Jagdish Kaur, editors, Integrated Mountain Development, Himalayan Books, →ISBN, page 4032 more examples
Shy, naive boy meeting semi-shy, semi-naive girl.
1980, Inside Sports, page 106Broken Hill also produced the actor Chips Rafferty, famous for his portrayal of the laconic Australian male, and the artist Pro Hart, whose semi-naive paintings of inland Australian life, especially in mining towns, captured the imagination of many who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s.
2018, Peter Spearritt, Where History Happened: The Hidden Past of Australia’s Towns and Places, NLA Publishing, →ISBN, page 45 - computingPredominantly 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.
2013, Concha Bielza, Antonio Salmeron, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, Advances in Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN
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