1. A method for identifying claims associated with electronic text comprising: accessing electronic text; identifying linguistic content associated with the electronic text wherein the linguistic content includes a plurality of linguistic features; generating a linguistic structure based on the linguistic content identified, wherein the linguistic structure identifies at least a relationship between a first two or more linguistic features of the plurality of linguistic features; comparing the linguistic structure to a claim template, wherein the claim template identifies the same relationship between a second two or more linguistic features, each of the second two or more linguistic features corresponding to a linguistic feature of the first two or more linguistic features; in response to a determination that each of the first two or more linguistic features is a hyponym of the corresponding linguistic feature in the second two or more linguistic features, identifying a claim within the electronic text.