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  <Title>SRI's Tipster II Project</Title>
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9 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Under the auspices of the Tipster II program, we have developed in FASTUS a mature, effective, efficient, robust information extraction system. We have made it substantially easier to use in new domains by implementing the FastSpec declarative specification language and the compile-time transformations, and we believe our work on adapting rules from examples will make the system yet easier to use in new domains.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We have integrated the system into the developing uniform, modular Tipster architecture.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> In our view the principal current problems are the need to handle broader domains and applications, the need to continue to make new domains easier to implement, and the need to use the technology in a wide variety of new applications.</Paragraph>
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