Tipster Architecture

One part of this effort involves the creation of a standard architecture (standard interfaces) for systems doing information retrieval and extraction. This architecture is being developed by a group of contractors and Government personnel (the Tipster Architecture Working Group), chaired by Ralph Grishman of NYU.

The current version of this architecuture (Version 1.50) was distributed at the 12-month Tipster meeting, May 17-19, 1995. Three files are available:

• Tipster Phase II Architecture Design Document, version 1.50 (LaTeX)
• Tipster Phase II Architecture Design Document, version 1.50 (Postscript)
• Architecture presentation slides (PostScript)

Several additional documents have been prepared by the Tipster Architecture Committee (which consists of representatives of the Government agencies involved in the Tipster program) to define the goals of the architecture effort and the process for qualifying systems as "Tipster compliant":

• Architecture Concept, Version 1.0 (1 Nov 1994)
• Architecture Requirements, Version 1.0 (4 Oct 1994)
• Configuration Management Plan, Version 1.0 (10 Feb 1995)

(For information about other natural language processing research at the NYU Proteus Project, click here).