Querying office systems about document roles

This paper describes the architecture of a document retrieval system integrating classical IR features with knowledge about the procedural and application context where documents are used. The paper focuses on the query language that allows the user to pose queries involving the analysis of both the semantic network where procedures, office agents, and events of the office context are represented as elements accessing, modifying, filing, manipulating document, and the document contents, i.e. their text. The coupling of the query system with a browser tool is also discussed. The system relies on a knowledge representation model for document and document roles developed in previous phases of the research.