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  <Title>EVALUATION DRIVEN RESEARCH: The Foundation of the TIPSTER Text Program</Title>
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EVALUATION DRIVEN RESEARCH:
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    <Paragraph position="0"> How Has It Performed in TIPSTER? Very well indeed. Following the Evaluation Driven Research Paradigm has served the TIPSTER Text Program exceedingly well. Throughout its seven year history, TIPSTER has achieved many exciting and important research results, but listing them here is beyond the intended purpose of this paper. All of the Proceedings listed in the reference section directly below are filled with excellent papers which describe in full detail what each TIPSTER Text Program participant has discovered, learned, and accomplished while investigating TIPSTER tasks under an Evaluation Driven Research Paradigm. These papers make for exciting and interesting reading and the reader is happily directed to them for further details.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> SUMMARY: During the past seven year history of the TIPSTER Text Program, there has been dramatic improvements in the current state-of-the-art in text handling, processing and exploitation. Clearly TIPSTER has been a major driving force behind these improvements within both the Information Retrieval and Information Extraction R&amp;D communities.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> While some of these advances would have happened without TIPSTER, TIPSTER was probably instrumental in accelerating their emergence. In other cases TIPSTER prodded and encouraged these R&amp;D communities to investigate problems which they might not have considered on their own mlUaUve.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> So why has TIPSTER been able to exert such a dramatic impact over these two fields? This paper argues that this success has been made possible in large part by TIPSTER's early adoption of and continuing adherence to an Evaluation Driven Research Paradigm.</Paragraph>
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