20. The computer system of claim 16 , wherein the processor determines whether to present a factual description as fact by: applying excluding rules in relation to the linguistic constituents of the factual descriptions to eliminate a portion of the factual descriptions from consideration; scoring the factual descriptions; comparing the score of each factual description remaining for consideration to a threshold; and for each factual description that contains the search term and that has a score that exceeds the threshold, presenting at least the portion of the sentence containing the factual description as a fact relevant to the search term.
16. A computer system, comprising: storage containing a plurality of electronic resources that comprise textual information; a processor that receives a search term comprising a noun, finds relevant electronic resources that match the search term, displays a list of relevant electronic resources and snippets of the relevant electronic resources in the list that comprise words matching the search term, and receives a request to present facts that are related to the search term from a set of relevant electronic documents, wherein the processor parses the relevant electronic documents to discover factual descriptions of sentences that comprise the noun of the search term and one or more verbs matching words of a fact-word table constructed to include a list of verbs determined to be indicative of fact expressions, the processor eliminates portions of the relevant electronic documents from fact extraction processing that comprise words not matching the search term and words of the fact-word table, the processor examines the discovered factual descriptions to identify the linguistic constituents of the factual descriptions after eliminating portions of the relevant electronic documents, determines whether to present a factual description as a fact based on the identified linguistic constituent, and presents at least a portion of sentences that contain the factual descriptions that are determined to be presented as a fact and that are related to the search term.