1. In a computing environment, a method of representing structured data extracted from unstructured data in a fashion which allows querying using relational database concepts, the method comprising: receiving user input specifying one or more database views; receiving user input specifying an information extraction technique, the information extraction technique defining how to extract structured data from unstructured data and the information extraction technique comprising a phrase semantic extraction technique which determines a semantic relationship about one or more words based upon a semantic environment of the one or more words; receiving user input specifying a corpus of data comprising unstructured data, the unstructured data comprising data that is not organized semantically such that it does not have a formalized type and is not in a formal entity level relationship; and applying the extraction technique to the corpus of data to extract structured data from the unstructured data of the corpus of data and to produce the one or more database views including the extracted structured data.