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DARPA TIPSTER Program
Encyclopedia
The DARPA TIPSTER Text program was started in 1991 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). It supported research to improve informational retrieval
and extraction
software and worked to deploy these improved technologies to government users. This technology was of particular interest to defense and intelligence analysts who must review increasingly large amounts of text.
Information retrieval
Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...
and extraction
Information extraction
Information extraction is a type of information retrieval whose goal is to automatically extract structured information from unstructured and/or semi-structured machine-readable documents. In most of the cases this activity concerns processing human language texts by means of natural language...
software and worked to deploy these improved technologies to government users. This technology was of particular interest to defense and intelligence analysts who must review increasingly large amounts of text.