1. a method for enrichment of text comprising: generating a model for structured data in a database, comprising associating referents in the database with designating terms which each describe an object, the referents each comprising or referring to one of the objects; identifying a plurality of candidate referring entities in textual data in the database; for each candidate referring entity, computing a similarity measure which includes comparing the candidate referring entity in the textual data with the model to identify referring entities of the candidate referring entities and corresponding objects to which the referring entities refer; and enriching the textual data with information derived from the objects.