20. A system to provide results to a query, wherein the query is applied to a set of documents, and wherein the system is coupled to a client computer via a computer network, the system comprising: at least one server computer configured to receive a query from the client computer; at least one query sub-process coupled to the server computer and configured to direct the query to analyze at least some documents in a set of documents; wherein the query sub-process produces partial hits before all of the documents in the set are analyzed, wherein the partial hits are a subset of the hits in the set of documents that match the query, wherein the set of documents are analyzed using text mining techniques to: extract structured information from unstructured or semi-structured text, and present relationships between entities extracted from the unstructured or semi-structured text, and wherein the query from the client computer is a multi-query comprising two or more constituent queries wherein analyzing the set of documents comprises synchronizing two or more waypoints, and wherein each of the two or more waypoints is associated with a different constituent query; and, an output component configured to receive hits produced from the query sub-process, wherein the output component is further configured to produce partial results extracted using at least text mining techniques based on the partial hits from the query sub-process.
20. A system to provide results to a query, wherein the query is applied to a set of documents, and wherein the system is coupled to a client computer via a computer network, the system comprising: at least one server computer configured to receive a query from the client computer; at least one query sub-process coupled to the server computer and configured to direct the query to analyze at least some documents in a set of documents; wherein the query sub-process produces partial hits before all of the documents in the set are analyzed, wherein the partial hits are a subset of the hits in the set of documents that match the query, wherein the set of documents are analyzed using text mining techniques to: extract structured information from unstructured or semi-structured text, and present relationships between entities extracted from the unstructured or semi-structured text, and wherein the query from the client computer is a multi-query comprising two or more constituent queries wherein analyzing the set of documents comprises synchronizing two or more waypoints, and wherein each of the two or more waypoints is associated with a different constituent query; and, an output component configured to receive hits produced from the query sub-process, wherein the output component is further configured to produce partial results extracted using at least text mining techniques based on the partial hits from the query sub-process. 21. The system of claim 20 , further comprising: a web server, coupled to the output component, and configured to provide a web browser in order that the client computer can display the partial results for and wherein the computer network is a public computer network.