The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied bythe inventors: “Information and relationships contained in docu ments describing studies, investigations,and scientific work can be very valuab le to those who are interested in the same or related topics.However, identifyi ng and extracting statistical relationships from a set of sources can be challen ging, atleast in part because reviewing and processing a large number of such d ocuments is time-consuming andcomputationally expensive. Embodiments of the sys tems and methods disclosed herein are directed tosolving these and related prob lems individually and collectively.”