title: API for text analysis or text extraction or semantic analysis (i.e., dates, titles, locations)?
body: <p>Are there any APIs available which could help us do the following:</p>
  
  <p>Given a body of text, extract:</p>
  
  <p>1) The name of a restaurant</p>
  
  <p>2) The date it was opened</p>
  
  <p>3) A description of the restaurant</p>
  
  <p>4) The restaurant owner</p>
  
  <p>Assume the body of text contains all this information in unstructured format.</p>
  
  <p>Obviously, we could rely on Amazon mTurk. But we're curious if an API allows something to be done programmatically -- or if not extract all these elements, at least extract some of them.</p>