Generative
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Generative may refer to:
Math and science
Language
- Generative actorGenerative actorA generative actor is an instigator of social change. He or she promotes cultural change by defying cultural normatives. Noted examples include Galileo and Rosa Parks....
, an person who instigates social change - Generative artGenerative artGenerative art refers to art that has been generated, composed, or constructed in an algorithmic manner through the use of systems defined by computer software algorithms, or similar mathematical or mechanical or randomised autonomous processes....
, art that has been generated, composed, or constructed in an algorithmic manner - Generative musicGenerative musicGenerative music is a term popularized by Brian Eno to describe music that is ever-different and changing, and that is created by a system.- Theory :There are four primary perspectives on "Generative Music" Generative music is a term popularized by Brian Eno to describe music that is ever-different...
, music that is ever-different and changing, and that is created by a system
Math and science
- Generative AnthropologyGenerative AnthropologyGenerative anthropology is a field of study based on the theory that the origin of human language was a singular event and that the history of human culture is a genetic or "generative" development stemming from the development of language....
, a field of study based on the theory that history of human culture is a genetic or "generative" development stemming from the development of language - Generative modelGenerative modelIn probability and statistics, a generative model is a model for randomly generating observable data, typically given some hidden parameters. It specifies a joint probability distribution over observation and label sequences...
, a model for randomly generating observable data in probability and statistics - Generative programming, a type of computer programming in which some mechanism generates a computer program to allow human programmers write code at a higher abstraction level
- Generative sciencesGenerative sciencesThe generative science is a interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary science that explores the natural world and its complex behaviours as a generative process...
, an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary science that explores the natural world and its complex behaviours as a generative process - Generative systemsGenerative systemsGenerative systems are systems that use a few basic rules to yield patterns. Depending on the rules, the patterns can be extremely varied and unpredictable. One of the more well-known examples is Conway's Game of Life, a cellular automaton. Another example is Boids...
, systems that use a few basic rules to yield patterns which can be extremely varied and unpredictable
Language
- Generative grammarGenerative grammarIn theoretical linguistics, generative grammar refers to a particular approach to the study of syntax. A generative grammar of a language attempts to give a set of rules that will correctly predict which combinations of words will form grammatical sentences...
, a set of rules predicting which combinations of words will form grammatical sentences - Generative LexiconGenerative LexiconGenerative Lexicon is a theory of linguistic semantics which focuseson the distributed nature ofcompositionality in natural language. The first major work outlining the framework is James Pustejovsky's "Generative Lexicon" . Subsequent important developments are presented in Pustejovsky and...
, a theory of semantics which focuses on the distributed nature of compositionality in natural language - Generative linguisticsGenerative linguisticsGenerative linguistics is a school of thought within linguistics that makes use of the concept of a generative grammar. The term "generative grammar" is used in different ways by different people, and the term "generative linguistics" therefore has a range of different, though overlapping,...
, a school of thought within linguistics that makes use of the concept of a generative grammar - Generative principleGenerative principleIn foreign language teaching, the generative principle reflects the human capacity to generate an infinite number of phrases and sentences from a finite grammatical or linguistic competence...
, the idea in foreign language teaching that humans have the capacity to generate an infinite number of phrases from a finite grammatical competence - Generative semanticsGenerative semanticsGenerative semantics is the name of a research program within linguistics, initiated by the work of various early students of Noam Chomsky: John R. Ross, Paul Postal and later James McCawley...
, an approach developed from transformational generative grammar that assumes that deep structures are the sole input to semantic interpretation