21. A tangible computer readable storage medium containing executable instructions which, if executed in a processing system, cause the system to perform a method for identifying a significant phrase in a document, the method comprising: reading a sequence of words from the document; determining a score for each word in the sequence based on the length of each word; comparing the score for each word in the sequence against a threshold score; indicating that the sequence of words is a significant phrase if the number of words in the sequence that have the score greater than the threshold score equals or exceeds a predetermined number and the number of words in the sequence satisfies the verbosity setting; retrieving a sentence from the document, the sentence containing the sequence of words, if the sequence of words is a significant phrase; and searching an abstract of the document to determine whether the sentence is included in the abstract.
21. A tangible computer readable storage medium containing executable instructions which, if executed in a processing system, cause the system to perform a method for identifying a significant phrase in a document, the method comprising: reading a sequence of words from the document; determining a score for each word in the sequence based on the length of each word; comparing the score for each word in the sequence against a threshold score; indicating that the sequence of words is a significant phrase if the number of words in the sequence that have the score greater than the threshold score equals or exceeds a predetermined number and the number of words in the sequence satisfies the verbosity setting; retrieving a sentence from the document, the sentence containing the sequence of words, if the sequence of words is a significant phrase; and searching an abstract of the document to determine whether the sentence is included in the abstract. 30. The tangible computer readable storage medium according to claim 21 , further comprising including the sentence in the abstract, if the sentence is not included in the abstract.