The Penman text generation system has been used within several different experimental application domains, demonstrating that it provides the basis for an adaptable general purpose text generation capability. Linking with these applications also indicated several ways that Penman's interface with applications could be improved. Penman's interface with applications is described, focusing on SPL,...

When stressed by low soil water content (SWC) or high vapor pressure deficit (VPD), plants close stomata, reducing transpiration and photosynthesis. However, it has historically been difficult to disentangle the magnitudes of VPD compared to SWC limitations on ecosystem-scale fluxes. We used a 13 year record of eddy covariance measurements from a forest in south central Indiana, USA, to quantif...

To improve the management of irrigation district is a key to develop water-saving agriculture. Based on the basic principles of water-saving irrigation, and using the method of Modified Penman Monteith and water balance equation, The system of irrigation management and decision support based on WEBGIS was developed,which is according to the soil moisture, crop growth status, meteorology change ...

I N T R O D U C T I O N Style in language is more than just surface appeaxance, on the contrary, it is an essential part of the meaning conveyed by the writer. A computational theory of style could be of great use in many computational linguistics applications. A system that is 'stylistically aware' could analyze the writer's stylistic intent and understand the complex interaction of choices th...

As the interest in annotated corpora is spreading, there is increasing concern with using existing language technology for corpus processing. In this paper we explore the idea of using natural language generation systems for corpus annotation. Resources for generation systems often focus on areas of linguistic variability that are under-represented in analysis-directed approaches. Therefore, ma...