Re: Extracting structured data from unstructured text - just how difficult would this be?

In response to your question, I'm going to say "quite difficult" or at least very time consuming. On the other hand, if the point is to get work done, then I think Amazon has already created the system you are looking for with the Mechanical Turk.

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Re^2: Extracting structured data from unstructured text - just how difficult would this be? by clinton (Priest) on Feb 21, 2008 at 16:23 UTC
That may just be a brilliant solution - good thinking batman! The only downside is that we have to verify their work, which may be almost as time consuming	[reply]
Re^3: Extracting structured data from unstructured text - just how difficult would this be? by moklevat (Priest) on Feb 21, 2008 at 16:31 UTC
Perhaps you could set your system up to have duplicate data entry, and then diff the duplicate entries to flag potential problems. Alternately you could set up a second Turk task to compare and verify entries.	[reply]