Extracting Demographic and Contact Information from unstructured text files

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Published on 2010-06-01T01:50:48Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 1:53 UTC
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I am looking to extract specific items out of a large pool of unstructured documents. These documents could be 1-5 pages of text formatted in various ways by the user, but in most cases would contain at least:

Name
Address (physical)
Email Address
Phone number
website URL

I'm looking for a semantic parser that can attempt to extract these elements from the documents so that I can load that information into a relational database and work with these records as contacts.

Other services I've looked for, while valuable for other purposes, do not address this specific need.

Any thoughts, suggestions or leads?

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