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  <Title>TIPSTER PHASE III GOALS</Title>
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TIPSTER PHASE III GOALS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The primary goal of TIPSTER Phase III is to promote advancements in text processing technologies. To accomplish this goal, the TIPSTER Program will continue to encourage the cooperation of researchers and developers in government, industry and academia to achieve a balanced overall program. The Phase III framework is modeled on that of Phase II and will consist of four basic components: (1)  produce, in reasonable English, a summary for each document of interest or a single summary of multiple documents in a collection of interest * Develop the means to merge results from different search algorithms while maintaining a relevance ranking for the retrieved information or fuse the retrieved information with other items  * Develop algorithms to resolve text references to same or different entities in automatically extracting relationships among entities mentioned in a document * Develop effective ways for a system administrator or end-user to port tools and techniques shown to work in one language or domain to other languages or domains  selected 16 projects to help meet the Phase III goals. Status reports for these projects and the other components of the program will be presented at the regularly scheduled TIPSTER workshops. These sessions will start with the Phase III kick-off meeting in October 1996 and subsequently continue at six- month intervals. Information about the dates and places of the workshops and other general program information can be found on the TIPSTER Program web site, http://www.tipster.org, as soon as it becomes operational.</Paragraph>
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