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  <Title>TIPSTER LESSONS LEARNED: THE SE/CM PERSPECTIVE</Title>
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INTRODUCTION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The TIPSTER architecture is a domain-specific software architecture (DSSA) for the text processing domain. The primary goal of the architecture was to allow the use of standardize text processing components, enabling &amp;quot;plug and play&amp;quot; capabilities of the various tools being developed. This would permit the sharing of software among the various research efforts and operational prototype applications.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> PRC, Inc., was the systems engineering and configuration management (SE/CM) contractor for the TIPSTER program, phases II and III (19941998). During this time we had close association with all the TIPSTER participants: Government, research contractors, and project contractors. Our primary role was to support the TIPSTER Architecture Committee and its co-chairpersons.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> We were able to observe the entire process of creating the TIPSTER architecture and applying it to research, projects, and the Architecture Capabilities Platform (ACP).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> The architecture was successful in many ways, though it also fell short of expectations in most areas. This paper describes our perspective on the architecture, to help subsequent efforts understand how to benefit from, and efficiently extend, the architecture.</Paragraph>
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