2. The method of claim 1 wherein: said parsing includes applying a syntactic parser; said rules include a set of mapping rules; and said extracting includes mapping syntactic relations to semantic relations using said set of mapping rules.
1. A computer-implemented method of preparing a set of documents to support information extraction, the method comprising: defining a set of concept categories; defining a set of monadic relations associated with single concepts; defining a set of dyadic relations between concepts; defining a set of rules that allow extraction of monadic relations associated with concepts and dyadic relations between concepts; receiving a corpus containing documents; parsing the documents to identify concepts; extracting, by applying the set of rules to the parsed documents, concept-relation-concept triples, referred to as CRCs, and relation-concept pairs, referred to as RCs from the parsed documents; and incorporating the CRCs and the RCs into a data organization.