The master's candidate (OP) formatted this better than s/he did with Reaped: Will it work? but the original has two excellent replies (as of 0730 EDT 201603/15). If this thread is retained (the original had been considered for reaping before I saw it) the replies should be reparented here.

Now, FWIW, a brief endorsement of those replies: source format(s) are important; degree of standardization is probably even more so, unless OP is willing to create an exhaustive list of equivalents and close alternates to "recommendation" and to do additional parsing to assure that the extracted information isn't polluted by comments such as "cannot in good conscience recommend (proposal A || proposal B). If the source data is a set of Y/N answers to questions, that's not going to be difficult, but if it's (conversational or formal) prose, then going thru mere thousands of filings is apt to look quite easy.

And what sort of sample data (other than the actual source data) would provide a thorough test of the code?