Rice is an essential crop in Iran that is grown mostly in areas where depth to groundwater is low. Root growth and water uptake of rice under shallow groundwater has not been thoroughly studied. This experiment was conducted to determine the lowland rice (cv. Ghasrodashti) root distribution above shallow groundwater in relation to deficit irrigation and groundwater depth in cylindrical gre...

This paper describes an automatic process for combining patterns and features, to guide a search process and reason about it. It is based on the functionality that a human brain might have, which is a highly distributed network of simple neuronal components that can apply some level of matching and cross-referencing over retrieved patterns. The process uses memory in a more dynamic way and it c...

We present a constraint-based syntax-semantics interface for the construction of RMRS (Robust Minimal Recursion Semantics) representations from shallow grammars. The architecture is designed to allow modular interfaces to existing shallow grammars of various depth – ranging from chunk grammars to context-free stochastic grammars. We define modular semantics construction principles in a typed fe...

We study a novel shallow information extraction problem that involves extracting sentences of a given set of topic categories from medical forum data. Given a corpus of medical forum documents, our goal is to extract two related types of sentences that describe a biomedical case (i.e., medical problem descriptions and medical treatment descriptions). Such an extraction task directly generates m...