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semi-naive en · ADJ

Etymology

From semi- + naive.

Meanings

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:
   • 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:
   • Shy, naive boy meeting semi-shy, semi-naive girl. 1980, Inside Sports, page 106:
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. 2013, Concha Bielza, Antonio Salmeron, Amparo Alonso-Betanzos, Advances in Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN:

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