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interpretability en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English interpretable Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English interpretability From interpretable + -ity.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The ability to be interpreted.
   • “There’s this whole area of explainability, interpretability, where people want to understand how stuff works,” said Church. “With the older methods, you can actually get an answer to what’s going on. The latest, greatest stuff is kind of like magic. It works a lot better than the older stuff. But when it goes, it’s really bad.” 2025 November 1, Aisha Down, quoting Kenneth Church, “Ducking annoying: why has iPhone’s autocorrect function gone haywire?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
   • Data collection, of course, has to comply with specific constraints that guarantee the causal interpretability of that data. 2008 August 1, Michael Baumgartner, “The Causal Chain Problem”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:
   • MIT researchers are striving to improve the interpretability of features so decision makers will be more comfortable using the outputs of machine-learning models. 2022 June 30, Adam Zewe, “Building explainability into the components of machine-learning models”, in MIT News:

Forms

Deriveds

uninterpretability

Translations (2)

ru интерпретируемость (the ability to be interpreted) · it interpretabilità (the ability to be interpreted)