Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Autonomy and Interaction in a Model of Sentence Processing

Is the human language understander a collection of modular processes operating with relative autonomy, or is it a single integrated process? This ongoing debate has polarized the language processing community, with two fundamentally different types of model posited, and with each camp concluding that the other is wrong. One camp puts forth a model with separate processors and distinct knowledge sources to explain one body of data, and the other proposes a model with a single processor and a homogeneous, monolithic knowledge source to explain the other body of data. In this paper we argue that a hybrid approach which combines a unified processor with separate knowledge sources provides an explanation of both bodies of data, and we demonstrate the feasibility of this approach with the computational model called COMPERE. We believe that this approach brings the language processing community significantly closer to offering human-like language processing systems.Comment: 7 pages, uses aaai.sty macr

Why Don't Farmers Adopt Precision Farming Technologies in Cotton Production?

We used the 2009 Southern Cotton Precision Farming Survey data collected from farmers in twelve U.S. states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia) to understand why farmers do not adopt seemingly profitable precision farming technology. Farmers provided cost, time constraint, satisfaction with the current practice and other as reasons for not adopting precision farming technology. Results from a multinomial logit regression model indicated that manure application on field, more formal education, larger farm size, participation in conservation easement or agricultural easement generally decreases the probability of nonadoption of precision agriculture in cotton production.precision agriculture, technology adoption, multinomial logit, Crop Production/Industries, Farm Management, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies, C25, Q16,

Rare Palmate octopus landed

In recent years, the octopus fishery is gaining importance due to the increase in the export demands. The catches of the same has been steadily increasing due to the expansion of the trawl fishing activities into the deeper waters. They are mainly landed as by-catch in the trawl landings. The octopus landings in Malabar are mainly supported by the species like Amphioctopus neglectus, A. marginatus, Octopus vulgaris, Cistopus indicus, Callistoctopus luteus etc. However, in the last week of August 2018 rare palmate octopus Tremoctopus gracilis were observed

Lipschitz p-Approximate Schauder Frames

With the aim of representing subsets of Banach spaces as an infinite series using Lipschitz functions, we study a variant of metric frames which we call Lipschitz p-approximate Schauder frames (Lipschitz p-ASFs). We characterize Lipschitz p-ASFs and their duals completely using the canonical Schauder basis for classical sequence spaces. Similarity of Lipschitz p-ASF is introduced and characterized.Comment: 11 page

Record size Gizzard Shad and Titan Cardinalfish landed

The Indo-Pacific genus Holapogon universally known as titan cardinalfish is represented by a single species Holapogon maximus (Boulenger, 1888) which are purely marine, mostly found in 38 to 100 m depths. In recent years particularly during post monsoon