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From: adrian@odyssey.ucc.ie
Subject: TIPSTER
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 16:30:21 GMT


I saw references to a document collection called TIPSTER, 
which is used as a standard means of comparing and evaluating
information retrieval systems

references:

        D. Harman
        The DARPA Tipster project
        SIGIR Forum
        26 (2): 26-28, 1992

        An Evaluation of Query Processing Strategies using the TIPSTER
        Collection
        J.P. Callan & W.B. Croft
        Proc. 16-th Internl ACM SIGIR Conf.
        pp. 347-356
        June '93

I looking for information on obtaining this collection to run
experiments using a retrieval scheme I've developed

any info appreciated,
Adrian O' Riordan

