43. The system of claim 37 further comprising: an information extraction module adapted to identify and extract terms from the document and wherein the list comprises the identified and extracted terms.
37. A computer-based system comprising memory and a processor for executing instructions to perform operations, the system comprising: input adapted to receive a list comprising a term, the term having been identified as being associated with an electronic document; relevancy scoring module adapted to determine a relevancy score associated with the term with respect to the document, the relevancy score being based solely upon a set of characteristics of the document, wherein the set of characteristics includes at least one characteristic from the group consisting of: a first number representing a number of sentences occurring in the document prior to a first sentence in which the term appears; a second number representing a number of sentences between first and last occurrences of the term within the document; and a third number representing a uniformity with which the term occurs within the document; and memory for storing the relevancy score.