13. A system for identifying claims associated with electronic text comprising: one or more processors; a monitoring module configured to access electronic text; a linguistic structure module configured to identify linguistic content associated with the electronic text and generate a linguistic structure based on the linguistic content identified, wherein the linguistic content includes a plurality of linguistic features and the linguistic structure identifies at least a relationship between a first two or more linguistic features of the plurality of linguistic features; a template module configured to compare the linguistic structure to a claim template and to identify a claim within the electronic text based on the comparison, 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; wherein the comparison is performed by determining whether each of the first one or more linguistic features is a hyponym of the corresponding linguistic feature in the second one or more linguistic features.
22. The system recited in claim 13 , wherein the linguistic structure module is further configured to identify at least one entity.