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interpretability

interpretability

7.3
The quality of being easy to understand or explain
  • noun
  • /ˌɪntərprɪtəˈbɪlɪti/
  • Specialized
translation icon : comprensibilidad
  • In scientific research, interpretability is crucial to ensure that results can be understood and applied.
  • increase the interpretability
  • improve the interpretability
  • interpretability of the results

It's actually some some alignment researchers were trying to, they were trying to do some interpretability work.

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Examples

  • Because the method relies on a straightforward comparison of the number of reported cases in the current 4-week period with comparable historical data from the preceding 5 years, its major strengths include simplicity, interpretability, and implicit accounting for seasonal disease patterns.

    Academic text (2015)
  • In addition to BIC values, other factors for choosing the superior solution are the interpretability of the results, theoretical meaningfulness of the profiles, and the classification quality (Muthn & Muthn, 2000).

    Academic text (2005)
  • I think it's come down to the point where the quality is high, the cost is low, and the interpretability is high.

    Blog text (14)
  • OK, so interpretability is one reason, but computational aspects would be another one.

  • To increase interpretability, each class was given a name based on response patterns on the in-class behavior assessment.

    Academic text (2013)
  • So I think fairness and interpretability are areas where we just really don't have any idea how anything should be done yet.

  • To increase the interpretability of the classes, the percentage of students within each class was examined across each item on the in-class behavior assessment.

    Academic text (2013)
  • In order to increase the interpretability of the resulting data, we constrained the questions about reading journal articles to focus on ASHA peer-reviewed journal articles.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The reason we chose this twist is the interpretability of the extracted topical factors, a property that benefits e-democracy by producing meaningful summaries of citizen feedback.

    Academic text (2012)
  • A VARIMAX procedure was used to orthogonally rotate the initial factor matrix to minimize the number of motives with higher loadings on a factor, thereby enhancing the interpretability of the factors.

    Academic text (2005)

Synonyms

clarity
vsinterpretability
152 3.0

How easy it is to understand what someone says or writes

stresses the ability to be formally explained in technical contexts
intelligibility
vsinterpretability
1 6.5

The ease with which people understand speech or writing

is broader, stressing formal explanation in technical or scientific fields
comprehensibility
vsinterpretability
1 4.2

How easy something is for people to understand

leans toward being explainable within technical or scientific domains
explainability
vsinterpretability
4.8

How easy it is for people to understand how something works

focuses more on being explained for technical or scientific contexts
understandability
vsinterpretability
3.4

How easy something is to follow and make sense of

emphasizes explainability especially for technical or scientific material
graspability
vsinterpretability
5.8

How easy something is to understand

is more about formal explanation for technical or scientific subjects
decipherability
vsinterpretability
7.6

The ease of reading and understanding writing or speech

focuses more on being explainable in technical or scientific situations
intuitiveness
vsinterpretability
5.2

How easy something is to understand or use without help

often requires explicit explanation, especially for technical material
knowability
vsinterpretability
7.7

How much people can understand or find out about something

is specifically about being explainable and understood in technical fields

Antonyms

Something that is very hard to understand

How Understandable

transparency
146 3.7
clarity
152 3.0
interpretability
  • Specialized
7.3
difficulty
651 2.4
obscurity
5 7.4
ambiguity
57 6.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

interpretability = interpretable (transparent) = interpret + able + ity

The formation 'interpretable' + '-ity' is a regular nominalization meaning the quality/state of being interpretable.

Etymology

Interpretability comes from interpret meaning 'explain' or 'translate' and the endings -able and -ity meaning 'the quality of being able'. Think of an interpreter who helps two people understand each other; interpretability is the quality that lets people understand or explain something.