52. The data processing system of claim 49 wherein the user is enabled to select a new pre-determined semantic definition for association with a user-defined text search term where the proper term association record does not already exist within the text index.
49. A data processing system for associating pre-determined semantic definitions with user-defined text search terms contained within at least one electronic document, said data processing system comprising: at least one processor; a memory operatively coupled to the at least one processor; a program module stored in the memory and operative for providing instructions to the at least one processor, the at least one processor responsive to the instructions of the program module; the program module configured for: receiving user input in a search engine indicating at least one user-defined text search term desired to be located in at least one electronic document; iteratively presenting to a user at least one pre-determined semantic definition for at least one user-defined text search term from a plurality of term association records contained within a text index, each term association record corresponding pre-determined to one semantic definition for the at least one user-defined text search term; enabling the user to iteratively select a desired pre-determined semantic definition for each at least one user-defined text search term; executing a text search for the user-defined text search terms against a text catalog containing text contents of electronic documents, to return a text search result; enabling the user to select one or more results from the text search result satisfying a search criteria of the user; creating or updating content association records, based upon a positive selection of results from the text index search, within a text index for each user-defined text search term for which a pre-determined semantic definition was selected by the user, linking the electronic document with the selected pre-determined semantic definitions for the user-defined text search terms used to reach that result; creating or updating term association records during the use of the text index by enabling the user to select pre-determined semantic definitions for association with user-defined text search terms; and wherein the content association records created or updated within the text index are subsequently searched using user-defined text search terms to locate at least one electronic document previously catalogued as containing the one or more user-defined text search terms in association with the selected pre-determined semantic definitions to deliver semantically relevant text search results.