1. A system comprising at least one computer processor for analyzing requirements data, comprising: a requirements database storing partially-structured data related to a subject matter domain; and an analytic tool, comprising: a user interface configured to receive a query from a user; and an analyzer configured to: parse the query into a plurality of search terms; identify a first requirement from the requirements database based on a degree of relatedness between the plurality of search terms and the textual content of the first requirement; identify a plurality of soft links between the first requirement and a plurality of related requirements, wherein each of the plurality of soft links represents a relatedness score between the first requirement and a related requirement from the plurality of related requirements, and each of the relatedness scores exceeds a threshold; rank the plurality of related requirements based on their relatedness scores; and provide the highest ranked requirement to the user.
1. A system comprising at least one computer processor for analyzing requirements data, comprising: a requirements database storing partially-structured data related to a subject matter domain; and an analytic tool, comprising: a user interface configured to receive a query from a user; and an analyzer configured to: parse the query into a plurality of search terms; identify a first requirement from the requirements database based on a degree of relatedness between the plurality of search terms and the textual content of the first requirement; identify a plurality of soft links between the first requirement and a plurality of related requirements, wherein each of the plurality of soft links represents a relatedness score between the first requirement and a related requirement from the plurality of related requirements, and each of the relatedness scores exceeds a threshold; rank the plurality of related requirements based on their relatedness scores; and provide the highest ranked requirement to the user. 4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the partially-structured data comprises requirements related to the subject matter domain.