9. The query generation system of claim 2 , wherein the visual characteristic is selected from the group consisting of a spatial order, a color, a size, a shape, an order, a relative proximity, a relative boldness, and a relative texture.
2. A query generation system comprising: an element rank and inference engine in communication with a computing system and a user interface, the element rank and inference engine operable to: receive a plurality of terms from the user interface; derive, using latent semantic analysis, one or more inferred terms from the plurality of received terms, the one or more inferred terms comprising terms not in the plurality of received terms; modify the plurality of terms according to a specified criteria; display the modified plurality of terms and the one or more inferred terms on the user interface, the plurality of terms and the one or more inferred terms having a visual characteristic that varies according to their specified criteria; generate a query in accordance with the modified plurality of terms and the one or more inferred terms; and transmit the query to a web search engine.