16. An apparatus, comprising: a processor; and a memory, at least one of the processor or the memory being adapted for: obtaining text from a file or website; assigning a label to one or more of a plurality of segments of the text such that each of the one or more of the plurality of segments of the text is classified as temporal data in one of a plurality of classes of temporal data; and applying one or more rules to the one or more segments of the text that have been classified as temporal data to generate a structured representation of the temporal data such that the temporal data is associated with an entity; wherein the rules include one or more schematic rules, wherein each of the schematic rules pertains to one or more of the plurality of classes of temporal data and indicates a structure in which temporal data in the corresponding one or more of the plurality of classes is to be stored.
16. An apparatus, comprising: a processor; and a memory, at least one of the processor or the memory being adapted for: obtaining text from a file or website; assigning a label to one or more of a plurality of segments of the text such that each of the one or more of the plurality of segments of the text is classified as temporal data in one of a plurality of classes of temporal data; and applying one or more rules to the one or more segments of the text that have been classified as temporal data to generate a structured representation of the temporal data such that the temporal data is associated with an entity; wherein the rules include one or more schematic rules, wherein each of the schematic rules pertains to one or more of the plurality of classes of temporal data and indicates a structure in which temporal data in the corresponding one or more of the plurality of classes is to be stored. 23. The apparatus as recited in claim 16 , at least one of the processor or the memory being further adapted for: assigning a label to a second set of one or more of a plurality of segments of the text such that each of the second set of one or more of the plurality of segments of the text is not classified as temporal data in one of the plurality of classes.