A computer-implemented linking system and method provide for linking actionable phrases in a first document to other documents in a document corpus. The method includes identifying at least one actionable phrase in a first document. The actionable phrase may include an action, its direct object, and any modifier of the direct object. For each identified action phrase the document corpus is searched to identify other documents, which are scored using a scoring function which takes into account occurrences of words of the actionable phrase in each identified document. The actionable phrase is linked to at least a part of one of the most highly ranked documents in the set of documents.