1. A method for retrieving regulatory information, comprising: indexing a plurality of regulatory corpuses, thereby forming a plurality of full-text searchable databases; receiving a search query comprising at least one search term; retrieving one or more synonyms of the search terms from a thesaurus; forming a synonym search query for each retrieved synonym; executing the search query and each synonym search query on the plurality of full-text searchable databases to identify a plurality of relevant passages; emphasizing search terms within the plurality of relevant passages; and emphasizing regulatory words within the plurality of relevant passages, thereby forming emphasized relevant passages.
1. A method for retrieving regulatory information, comprising: indexing a plurality of regulatory corpuses, thereby forming a plurality of full-text searchable databases; receiving a search query comprising at least one search term; retrieving one or more synonyms of the search terms from a thesaurus; forming a synonym search query for each retrieved synonym; executing the search query and each synonym search query on the plurality of full-text searchable databases to identify a plurality of relevant passages; emphasizing search terms within the plurality of relevant passages; and emphasizing regulatory words within the plurality of relevant passages, thereby forming emphasized relevant passages. 6. The method of claim 1 , wherein emphasizing search terms within said relevant passages, and emphasizing regulatory words within said relevant passages, comprises rendering the search terms and regulatory words in a boldface font.