System and Method for Parsing Regulatory and Other Documents for Machine Scoring Background

A method for parsing a document having a document type, where the document type has a corresponding type structure including a plurality of document components, comprising receiving a new document, determining the document type, and selecting a parser from a plurality of parsers based on the document type. The method continues with parsing the document into a tagged data structure using the selected document parser, where the tagged data structure corresponds to the type structure of the document. The populated tagged data structure is stored in a database and made available over a computer network. In some embodiments, the document converted to simplified XML prior to parsing.