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"text": "Most current IR research is focused on specific technologies, such as filtering, classification, entity extraction, question answering, etc. There is relatively little research on merging multiple technologies into sophisticated applications, due in part to the high cost of integrating independently-developed text processing modules.",
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"text": "In this paper, we present the Integrated Information Management (IIM) architecture for component-based development of IR applications 1 . The IIM architecture is general enough to model different types of IR tasks, beyond indexing and retrieval. Rather than providing a single framework or toolkit, our goal is to create a higherlevel framework which is used to build a variety of different class libraries or toolkits for different problems. Another goal is to promote the educational use of IR software, from an \"exploratory programming\" perspective. For this reason, it is also important to provide a graphical interface for effective task visualization and realtime control.",
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"text": "Prior architecture-related work has focused on toolkits or class libraries for specific types of IR or NLP problems. Examples include the SMART system for indexing and retrieval [17] , the FIRE [18] and InfoGrid [15] class models for information retrieval applications, and the ATTICS [11] system for text categorization and machine learning. Some prior work has also focused on the user interface, notably FireWorks [9] and SketchTrieve [9] 2 . Other systems such as GATE [4] and Corelli [20] have centered on specific approaches to NLP applications.",
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"text": "The Tipster II architecture working group summarized the requirements for an ideal IR architecture [6] , which include:",
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"text": "Standardization. Specify a standard set of functions and interfaces for information services. Evaluation. Isolate and test specific modules side-by-side in the same application.",
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"text": "One of the visions of the Tipster II team was a \"marketplace of modules\", supporting mix-and-match of components developed at different locations. The goals of rapid deployment and flexibility require an excellent user interface, with support for drag-and-drop task modeling, real-time task visualization and control, and uniform component instrumentation for cross-evaluation. The modules themselves should be small, downloadable files which run on a variety of hardware and software platforms. This vision is in fact a specialized form of component-based software engineering (CBSE) [14] , where the re-use environment includes libraries of reusable IR components, and the integration process includes realtime configuration, control, and tuning. Section 2 summarizes the architectural design of IIM. Section 3 provides more detail regarding the system's current implementation in Java. In Section 5 we describe three different task libraries that have been constructed using IIM's generic modules. Current instrumentation, measurement, and results are presented in Section 6. We conclude in Section 7 with some relevant comparisons of IIM to related prior work.",
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"text": "IIM uses a flow-based (pipe and filter [16] ) processing model. Information processing steps are represented as nodes in a graph. Each edge in the graph represents a flow connection between a parent node and a child node; the documents produced by the parent node are passed to each child node. In IIM, the flow graph is referred to as a node chain. A sample node chain is shown in Figure 1 . The IIM class model includes six basic node types, which can be used to model a variety of IR problems:",
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"text": "1. Source. Generates a document stream (from a static collection, web search, etc.) and passes documents one at a time to its child node(s).",
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"text": "Annotator. Adds additional information to the document regarding a particular region in the document body. The IIM class model is embedded in a Model-View-Controller architecture [5] , which allows the system to be run with or without the graphical interface. Pre-stored node chains can be executed directly from the shell, or as a background process, completely bypassing all user interaction when optimal performance is required. The Controller subsystem and interface event dispatching subsystem must run as separate threads to support dynamic update of parameters in a running system. The View (user interface) should support: a) plug-and-play creation of new node chains; b) support for saving, loading and importing new node chains; c) dynamic visualization of a task's status; and d) direct manipulation of a node's parameters at any time.",
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"text": "Macro Nodes. Certain sequences of nodes are useful in more than one application, so it is convenient to store them together as a single reusable unit, or macro node. IIM allows the user to export a portion of a node chain as a macro node to be loaded into the Node Library and inserted into a new chain as a single node. The user may specify which of the properties of the original nodes are visible in the exported macro node (see Figure 3 ).",
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"text": "Controllers. Some IR tasks require iteration through multiple runs; the system's behavior on each successive trial is modified based on feedback from a previous run. For example, a system might wish to ask for more documents or perform query expansion if the original query returns an insufficient number of relevant documents. IIM includes a Controller interface, which specifies methods for sending feedback from one node to another. The user can implement a variety of controllers, depending on the needs of the particular application.",
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"text": "In the IIM Java implementation, nodes are specified by the abstract interface Node and its six abstract subinterfaces: Source, Filter, Annotator, Transformer, Sink and Renderer (see Figure 2 ). Any user-defined Java class which implements one of the Node subinterfaces can be loaded into IIM and used in a node chain. The visualization of a node is represented by a separate Java class, Box, which handles all of the details related to drawing the node and various visual cues in the node chain display.",
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"text": "Node Chain Display. The canvas to the right displays the current node chain, as described in the previous section. While the node chain is running, IIM provides two types of visual feedback regarding task progress. To indicate the percentage of overall run-time that the node is active, the border color of each node varies from bright green (low) to bright red (high). To indicate the amount of output per node per unit of time spent (throughput), the system indicates bytes per second as a text label under each node. A rectangular meter at the right of each node provides a graphic visualization of relative throughput; the node with the highest throughput will have a solid red meter, while other nodes will have a meter level which shows their throughput as a percentage of maximum throughput.",
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"text": "An example of the statistical data produced by the system is shown in Figure 4 . The system is careful to keep track of time spent \"inside\" the nodes, as well as the overall clock time taken for the task. This allows the user to determine how much overhead is added by the IIM system itself.",
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"text": "The throughput speed of the prototype system is acceptably fast, averaging better than 50M of text per minute on a sample filtering task (530M of web documents), running on a typical Pentium III PC with 128M RAM. IIM requires about 10M of memory (including the Java run-time environment) for the core system and user interface, with additional memory requirements depending on the size of the document stream and the sophistication of the node chain 4 . Although the core system is implemented in Java, we have also implemented nodes in C++, using appropriate wrapper classes and the Java Native Interface (JNI). This technique allows us to implement critical, resource-intensive nodes using native code, without sacrificing the benefits of the Java-based core system.",
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"text": "The preliminary results of the IIM prototype are promising. IIM's drag-and-drop component library makes it possible to build and tune a new application in a matter of minutes, greatly reducing the amount of effort required to integrate and reuse existing modules. \u00a3 We are currently expanding this application to include part of speech tagging and syntactic parsing, both of which are straightforwardly modeled as examples of the Annotator interface. \u00a4 Node chains which create a high volume of annotations per document use more memory, as do node chains which create new collections, transform documents, etc. In the future, we hope this high degree of flexibility will encourage greater experimentation and the creation of new aggregate systems from novel combinations of components, leading to a true \"marketplace of modules\".",
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"text": "Building extensible architectures as \"class library plus application framework\" is not a new idea, and has been discussed before with respect to information retrieval systems [7, 18, 9] . One might claim that any new IR architecture should adopt a similar design pattern, given the proven benefits of separating the modules from the application framework (flexibility, extensibility, high degree of reuse, easy integration, etc.). To some extent, IIM consolidates, refines and/or reimplements ideas previously published in the literature. Specifically, the following characteristics of the IIM architecture can be directly compared with prior work:",
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