System and methods for analytic research and literate reporting of authoritative document collections

摘要

A computerized research system operates over an authoritative document collection to facilitate user analysis and organized reporting of information gathered from the collection. The computerized research system includes database, analysis and organization, and reporting modules. The database stores an index of a document collection, wherein the index is constructed to identify the occurrence of and association between authoritative assertions existing within the documents of the document collection. The analysis module is coupleable to the database and responsive to user interaction to provide a user navigable representation of authoritative assertions and to organize a user determined set of authoritative assertions selected from the document collection. The reporting module is, in turn, responsive to the user determined set to, under user direction, generate a report document containing a literate reporting of the user determined set of authoritative assertions.