5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising normalizing issues discussed in the document corpus.
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising normalizing issues discussed in the document corpus. 7. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , wherein normalizing the issues discussed in the document corpus comprises: semantically linking, by a computing device, documents within the document corpus by pairing reasons-for-citing in citing documents with cited-text-areas in cited documents, wherein a cited-text-area in a cited document is a text area that has a highest similarity value of text present within the cited document; creating a group of semantically-similar reasons-for-citing and cited-text-areas that are semantically similar to at least one issue; and storing information regarding groups of semantically-similar reasons-for-citing and cited-text-areas in an issue library metadata entity, wherein each issue library metadata entity is associated with an individual issue.