Focus of Tipster Phases I and 2
Abstract
The TIPSTER Program began in June 1989 just after the conclusion of the second Message Understanding Conference (MUC-2). The concept which the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) put forward at that time was based on the promising results of that conference and on the belief that the technologies being demonstrated at MUC for the automated handling of large volumes of text would be of great benefit to a variety of Government agencies. Following a series of meetings, agreement was reached for sharing the planning, funding, and execution of the program. Several major concepts were also outlined and accepted as central to TIPSTER's progress. Initially two phases were planned: two years of research and development into advanced algorithms, followed by two years of development of prototype/demonstration systems. Within these two phases, there would be separate focus on detection (retrieval and routing) and on extraction (understanding). Portability with regard to domain and language would be emphasized; evaluation of complete systems would be encouraged and scheduled periodically; and, as part of the baseline for these evaluations, the Government would develop a large corpora for the training and testing of corpus-based techniques as well as for system development and evaluation. Proposals were solicited in June of 1990, and eventually three contractors were selected to investigate different approaches to detection and another three were selected for extraction research.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1996
- Accession Number
- ADA630839
Entities
People
- Patricia A. Currier
- Patrick J. Altomari
Organizations
- United States Department of Defense