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  <Title>The Smart/Empire TIPSTER IR System</Title>
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1 INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The primary goal of the Cornell/Sabir TIPSTER Phase III project is to develop techniques to improve the end-user efficiency of information retrieval (IR) systems. We have focused our investigations in four related research areas:  1. High Precision Information Retrieval. The goal of our research in this area is to increase the accuracy of the set of documents given to the user.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> 2. Near-Duplicate Detection. The goal of our work  in near-duplicate detection is to develop methods for delineating or removing from the set of retrieved documents any information that the user has already seen.</Paragraph>
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