Systems and methods for analyzing electronic text

A system for systematically analyzing an electronic text, comprising:

• a module to receive the electronic text from a plurality of sources;
• a module to determine an at least one term of interest to be identified in the electronic text;
• a module to identify a plurality of locations within the electronic text including the at least one term of interest;
• a module to create for each location within a plurality of locations a snippet from a text segment around the at least one term of interest at the location within the electronic text;
• a module to create multiple taxonomies for the at least one term of interest from the snippets, wherein the taxonomies include an at least one category;
• and
• a module to determine co-occurrences between the multiple taxonomies to determine associations between categories of a different taxonomies of the multiple taxonomies.

A computer program product comprising a computer useable storage medium to store a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to perform operations comprising:

• receiving the electronic text from a plurality of sources;
• determining an at least one term of interest to be identified in the electronic text;
• identifying a plurality of locations within the electronic text including the at least one term of interest;
• for each location within a plurality of locations, creating a snippet from a text segment around the at least one term of interest at the location within the electronic text;
• creating multiple taxonomies for the at least one term of interest from the snippets, wherein the taxonomies include an at least one category;
• and
• determining co-occurrences between the multiple taxonomies to determine associations between categories of a different taxonomies of the multiple taxonomies;
• determining co-occurrences between a category of a single taxonomy and the at least one term of interest to determine significance of the at least one term of interest;
• and
• sorting the at least one term of interest by significance;
• and
• outputting the sorted at least one term of interest.