3. A method according to claim 1 , further comprising excluding, by the computing device, from said subset individual tasks whose association with previous clinical trial protocols fail a particular association strength criterion.
3. A method according to claim 1 , further comprising excluding, by the computing device, from said subset individual tasks whose association with previous clinical trial protocols fail a particular association strength criterion. 4. A method according to claim 3 , wherein said particular association strength criterion excludes individual tasks from said subset that are indicated in said historical database as having been included in no more than a predetermined percentage of previous clinical trial protocols that satisfy user-specified filtering criteria.