I can corroborate that, Antoinette,  (01)
I don't think anything is completely automatic but both Denise's 
tools and Kayvium can extract significant patterns that you can then 
refine.  (02)
Cheers,
Rex  (03)
At 4:49 PM -0400 10/3/06, Bob Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
>Perhaps Denise Bedford has some useful answers to your question. She 
>is speaking at the 5th S-I 4 eGov conference at your facility, and 
>has a Poster-Table as well.
>
>In addition, Rex Brooks and I have been using 
><http://www.kayvium.com>www.kayvium.com Beta for extracting concepts 
>and relationships from free-form text documents such as the ones you 
>mention.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Bob Smith, Ph.D.
>Professor Emeritus, CSU
>
>
>
> From: "Arsic, Antoinette" <aarsic@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 4:20 PM
>To: "[ontolog-forum] " <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [ontolog-forum] Ontology extraction tool
>
>A fellow MITRErite was asking the following, and I thought this group
>was the best you can get to ask:
>
>(I'm) looking for an automated ontology extraction tool that can be
>used against unstructured data (softcopy text documents in MS Word,
>EXCEL or PDF formats) and structured data. Is anyone aware of such a
>tool(s)?
>
>
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