136. A method to enable improved analysis and use of sociological data, the method comprising: identifying causal relationships between a plurality of documents; identifying a plurality of characteristics of a communication, including a modality used, actors involved, and proximate events of relevance; enabling a user to query based on all of the characteristics available; and enabling an automatic selection of a subset of a corpus of documents for production.
136. A method to enable improved analysis and use of sociological data, the method comprising: identifying causal relationships between a plurality of documents; identifying a plurality of characteristics of a communication, including a modality used, actors involved, and proximate events of relevance; enabling a user to query based on all of the characteristics available; and enabling an automatic selection of a subset of a corpus of documents for production. 137. The method of claim 136 , further comprising: presenting a user interface through which the user may review the automatic selection of. a subset of a corpus of documents for production.