13. The method according to claim 10 , further comprising an act of determining an association by a proximity between at least two of the terms within at least one document.
10. A method for determining a business ontology, the method comprising acts of: performing an analysis by a computer system of a plurality of business documents, wherein the analysis comprises acts of: establishing an analysis scope that includes the plurality of business documents; determining a plurality of sentences within the plurality of business documents within the analysis scope, including separating the sentences for analysis; identifying terms and associations between terms within each separated sentence of the plurality of sentences, including determining a proximity between at least two of the terms within at least one sentence of the separated sentences, the proximity including a sentence proximity association for terms of the identified terms occurring in the same sentence but not in a same term group, a term proximity association for identifying actions acted upon terms of the identified terms by other terms, and a document proximity association for all verbs in the same business document of the plurality of business documents; analyzing the terms and associations including the sentence proximity association, the term proximity association, and the document proximity association; after analyzing the terms and associations, identifying frequently-used terms and associations within the plurality of sentences used most within the scope; and determining a business ontology based on the identified frequently-used terms and associations within the plurality of sentences among the plurality of business documents.