This paper presents a novel methodology for automatically extracting pragmatic markers from
large streams of texts and repositories of documents. Pragmatic markers typically are
implications, innuendos, suggestions, contradictions, sarcasms or references that are difficult to
define objectively, but that are subjectively evident. Our methodology uses a two-stage
augmented learning model applied to a specific use case, extracting from a repository of over
1500 Article IV country reports prepared for government officials by International Monetary
Fund (IMF) staff. The model uses principles of evidence theory to train a machine to decipher
the textual patterns of suggested actions for government officials and to extract those
suggestions from the country reports at scale. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the model
with impressive precision and recall metrics that over time outperform even the human
trainers..