A system and method for performing discovery of digital information in a subject area is provided. Each of topics in a subject area, training material for the topics, and a corpus comprising digital information are designated. Topic models for each of the topics are built. The topic models are evaluated...http://www.google.ca/patents/US8165985?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8165985 - System and method for performing discovery of digital information in a subject area