Machine assisted analysis of documents

A document analysis system for analyzing a source document, comprising:

• an interface for receiving a source document;
• an input module for receiving classification information regarding said source document indicating one of a document type and a type of goods or services involved;
• a database of reference document provisions indexed by at least one of provision type and goods or services involved;
• a preprocessing module for developing abstracted document data, said preprocessing module providing a defined set of interface elements mapped to document scoring elements;
• a processing system for:
• receiving said source document, said classification information regarding said source document, and said abstracted document data;
• obtaining one or more parsed provisions of said source document;
• accessing said database to obtain reference information regarding said reference document provisions;
• and
• generating one or more metrics based on an analysis of said parsed document provisions, said scoring elements, and said reference information, wherein said generating involves employing a machine learning module to perform a textual analysis of said parsed document provisions in relation to said reference information;
• and
• an output module for generating a report using said metrics.