More Sources of TIPSTER Information

Published Material Available for Purchase

The following additional background information from TIPSTER Text Phases I and II can be purchased from the sources indicated.

1. Proceedings of the TIPSTER Text Program (Phase I) Call 1-800-745-7323; or (415) 578-9928; or fax (415) 578-0672; or Email morgan@unix.sri.com to order number ISBN 1-55860-337-9 from: Morgan Kaufman Publishers, Inc., 340 Pine St., 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104.
2. Proceedings of the TIPSTER Text Program (Phase II) Call 1-800-745-7323; or (415) 578-9928; or fax (415) 578-0672; or Email morgan@unix.sri.com to order number ISBN 1-55860-426-x from: Morgan Kaufman Publishers, Inc., 340 Pine St., 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104.
3. Proceedings of the Fifth Message Understanding Conference (MUC- 5) Call 1-800-745-7323; or (415) 578-9928; or fax (415) 578-0672; or Email morgan@unix.sri.com to order number ISBN 1-55860-336-0 from: Morgan Kaufman Publishers, Inc., 340 Pine St., 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104.
4. Proceedings of Text REtrieval Conferences can be found at http://trec.nist.gov/pubs.html.

TIPSTER Text Phase I Data Extraction Collection

The information includes Template Definitions and Fill Rules for Joint Ventures (JV) for both English and Japanese, and is available by FTP from NMSU/CRL.

TIPSTER Text Phase I Document Detection Collection

The full TIPSTER Text collection used in TREC evaluations and for Document Detection is available for purchase in electronic form from the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC). Call (215) 898-0464; or Email ldc@unagi.cis.upenn.edu.