7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: applying a stemming process to the regulatory words, thereby creating stemmed regulatory words; and emphasizing the stemmed regulatory words in said relevant passages.
1. A method for retrieving regulatory information, comprising: indexing a plurality of regulatory corpuses, thereby forming a plurality of full-text searchable databases; receiving a search query comprising at least one search term; retrieving one or more synonyms of the search terms from a thesaurus; forming a synonym search query for each retrieved synonym; executing the search query and each synonym search query on the plurality of full-text searchable databases to identify a plurality of relevant passages; emphasizing search terms within the plurality of relevant passages; and emphasizing regulatory words within the plurality of relevant passages, thereby forming emphasized relevant passages.