This appears relatively simple, but that may just be my lack of experience in this field:)

Try it. A lot of amazing advances have been made by people who didn't know it was impossible to what they just did. My suspicion is that you're going to find that providing sufficient context is going to be NP-hard. But, don't listen to me. Seriously.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^3: Extracting structured data from unstructured text - just how difficult would this be? by dragonchild
in thread Extracting structured data from unstructured text - just how difficult would this be? by clinton

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