semi-naive

adjective

Partially naive.

Meanings

adjectivesemi-naive (comparative more semi-naive, superlative most semi-naive)

comparative more semi-naive · superlative most semi-naive · alternative semi-naïf · alternative seminaive · alternative seminaïve · alternative semi-naïve

  1. Partially naive.

    They are semi-civilized and semi-naive people.

    1985, Tejvir Singh, Jagdish Kaur, editors, Integrated Mountain Development, Himalayan Books, →ISBN, page 403
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    Shy, naive boy meeting semi-shy, semi-naive girl.

    1980, Inside Sports, page 106

    Broken 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
  2. 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

Origin

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