6. The scoring method of claim 5 , wherein: the step of assigning a score to a particular document, with respect to the topic, based at least in part on a characterization of topic incoherency associated with at least one document linking to that particular document includes: weighting the score assigned to that particular document, for the topic, by the characterization of topic incoherency associated with the at least one document linking to that particular document, so as to result in less weighting of the score assigned to that particular document, for the topic, the greater the number of topics associated with that linking document.
6. The scoring method of claim 5 , wherein: the step of assigning a score to a particular document, with respect to the topic, based at least in part on a characterization of topic incoherency associated with at least one document linking to that particular document includes: weighting the score assigned to that particular document, for the topic, by the characterization of topic incoherency associated with the at least one document linking to that particular document, so as to result in less weighting of the score assigned to that particular document, for the topic, the greater the number of topics associated with that linking document. 7. The scoring method of claim 6 , wherein: the number of topics associated with that linking document is determined based on a score, with respect to that linking document, for each of the topics associated with that linking document.