A Microsoft Purview classifier that learns from sample content, rather than matching patterns, to identify kinds of material such as contracts or financial records. Microsoft provides ready-made classifiers, and organisations can also build their own.
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Terms in this definition
- Microsoft Purview
Family of Microsoft products for data governance, security and compliance. Its Data Map stores only metadata, such as lineage, schema and classification, never the data itself.
Related terms
- Pretrained classifier
A trainable classifier that Microsoft has trained in advance. It appears as Ready to use, so you can pick it in a policy straight away with no seed content.
- Seeding
Giving a custom trainable classifier hand-picked examples to learn from: a minimum of 50 positive and 150 negative samples, all of them text-based files.