15. One or more physical computer readable storage media comprising computer executable instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause the following to be performed: accept user input specifying one or more database views; accept 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; accept 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 apply 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.
15. One or more physical computer readable storage media comprising computer executable instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause the following to be performed: accept user input specifying one or more database views; accept 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; accept 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 apply 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. 17. The one or more physical computer readable storage media of claim 15 , wherein the one or more views is a single view that is itself a collection of views.