interpretability

English

Etymology

From interpretable +‎ -ity.

Noun

interpretability (countable and uncountable, plural interpretabilities)

1. The ability to be interpreted.
   • 2008 August 1, Michael Baumgartner, “The Causal Chain Problem”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:

     Data collection, of course, has to comply with specific constraints that guarantee the causal interpretability of that data.

   • 2022 June 30, Adam Zewe, “Building explainability into the components of machine-learning models”, in MIT News‎:

     MIT researchers are striving to improve the interpretability of features so decision makers will be more comfortable using the outputs of machine-learning models.

   • 2025 November 1, Aisha Down, quoting Kenneth Church, “Ducking annoying: why has iPhone’s autocorrect function gone haywire?”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     “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.”

Derived terms

• uninterpretability

Translations

the ability to be interpreted

Italian: interpretabilità f Russian: интерпретируемость (ru) f (interpretirujemostʹ)