11. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a data processing system, causes the data processing system to: receive, an electronic document for processing; analyze the electronic document to identify concepts present within textual content of the electronic document; correlate concepts within the textual content with one another to identify concept groups within the textual content based on the application of one or more rules defining related concepts or concept patterns; determine at least one section of text within the textual content based on the correlation of concepts within the textual content; generate, based on results of the determining, section metadata for the electronic document to thereby identify the at least one section in the electronic document; and store the section metadata in association with the electronic document for use by a document processing system.
11. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a data processing system, causes the data processing system to: receive, an electronic document for processing; analyze the electronic document to identify concepts present within textual content of the electronic document; correlate concepts within the textual content with one another to identify concept groups within the textual content based on the application of one or more rules defining related concepts or concept patterns; determine at least one section of text within the textual content based on the correlation of concepts within the textual content; generate, based on results of the determining, section metadata for the electronic document to thereby identify the at least one section in the electronic document; and store the section metadata in association with the electronic document for use by a document processing system. 18. The computer program product of claim 11 , wherein the computer readable program causes the data processing system to determine at least one section of text within the textual content based on the correlation of concepts within the textual content further at least by determining the at least one section of text within the textual content also based on structural annotations associated with the textual content.