Researchers at IBM Almaden have been developing a semantic search process that can delve into unstructured text to retrieve structured information.
Avatar Seeks Semantic Search
Powerset and its almost-here natural language search, IBM has been working on a similar technology that may or may not be as close to public debut.
IBM calls their effort
We've looked at earlier IBM efforts to pull information out of unstructured resources. Their Douglas Adams can provide for me.
IBM built momentum with UIMA starting well before I'd interviewed Marc Andrews about it in December 2005. It led to the co-branded, freely available Omnifind product I mentioned earlier, and I have to think Avatar may be on a similar track today. 
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