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I'm writing a program with icon that reads an email message and
determines the who, what, when, where and by whom. At least that is what
I am trying to do.  This message would come form a supervisor to the
human resources department asking them to promote Mr. Any Body to a New
Title on a certain date.  By having all the employees names prior to
running the program I weight each name based on its reletive position to
the other name within the organization to get a fuzzy match.  One of
which must be a supervisor.  I've never tried using AI technology before
so I looking for someone who has done something similar that would share
with me their text parse-ing process for ideas.  I'm currently looking
for words that match my list as for the 'what' the matching terms would
be 'promote, demote, reassign, realign, fire...'.  Likewise, 'who' is
the list of employees.

I'm now working on the 'when' to search for dates.  I need a different
method than giving the program every possible date in every possible
way.  Does someone have a program that would pick a date out of a
sentence?

Terry