Given that the procedure described in Section 2 can be tedious, repetitive and hence boring, it is useful to ask the question: Can this process be automated? The goal of automation is however not to eliminate the most 'intelligent' element in the chain - a human being. The goal is to significantly reduce the amount of data to a level where it is not too cumbersome for a human (or a co-operating set of humans!) to examine.
In what follows, we discuss each of the above steps in detail with the goal of exploring which of these steps can be automated.