A Generative Theory of Shape

A Generative Theory of Similarity

We propose that similarity judgments are inferences about generative processes, and that two objects appear similar when they are likely to have been generated by the same process. We present a formal model based on this idea, and suggest that it may be particularly useful for explaining high-level judgments of similarity. We compare our model to featural and transformational accounts, and desc...

A Generative Theory of Relevance

A GENERATIVE THEORY OF RELEVANCE SEPTEMBER 2004 VICTOR LAVRENKO B.Sc., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST M.Sc., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor W. Bruce Croft and Professor James Allan We present a new theory of relevance for the field of Information Retrieval. Relevance is viewed as a generative process, and we hypothesize...

A Theory of Generative ConvNet

The convolutional neural network (ConvNet or CNN) is a powerful discriminative learning machine. In this paper, we show that a generative random field model that we call generative ConvNet can be derived from the discriminative ConvNet. The probability distribution of the generative ConvNet model is in the form of exponential tilting of a reference distribution. Assuming re-lu non-linearity and...

network of phonological rules in lori dialect of andimeshk: a study within the framework of post-generative approach.

پژوهش حاضر ارائه ی توصیفی است از نظام آوایی گویش لری شهر اندیمشک، واقع در شمال غربی استان خوزستان. چهارچوب نظری این پژوهش، انگاره ی پسازایشی جزءمستقل می باشد. این پایان نامه شامل موارد زیر است: -توصیف آواهای این گویش به صورت آواشناسی سنتی و در قالب مختصه های زایشی ممیز، همراه با آوانوشته ی تفصیلی؛ -توصیف نظام آوایی گویش لری و قواعد واجی آن در چهارچوب انگاره ی پسازایشی جزءمستقل و معرفی برهم کن...

Running head: A Generative Theory of Classification Essentialism as a Generative Theory of Classification