threshold of prominence the document structural cues are informative of which sentences are salient by virtue of their position and which portions of text should not be considered for documents without structural cues the method 300 can also rely on general word statistics such as word counts to determine salience the method 300 also includes contextualizing salient words and phrases 358 after identifying the salient words and phrases 356 the method 300 contextualizes salient words and phrases to discover whether or not the identified salient words and phrases make sense typically most word processors contain spell checkers that contextualize salient words and phrases and can be modified by those with skill in the art to carry out contextualizing salient words and phrases in the method 300 contextualizing the salient words and phrases 356 also typically involves arranging the identified salient words and phrases and placing them in a certain context the method 300 determines which order and sense the set of salient words and phrases belong after contextualizing the salient words and phrases the method 300 generates the salient words and phrases generating the salient words and phrases includes tagging the salient words and phrases salient words and phrases are tagged before creating the salient marked up document tagging the salient words and phrases is typically done by a form of markup markup can be html language highlighting bold letters etc as long as the markup indicates the salient words and phrases of the original document to create a set of salient words and phrases in which the content bearing items were found alternatively generating the salient words and.