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This paper presents a knowledge-based approach to managing and retrieving personal documents. The dual document models consist of a document type hierarchy and a folder organization. The document type hierarchy is used to capture the layout, logical and conceptual structures of documents. The folder organization mimics the user's real-world document filing system for organizing and storing documents in an office environment. Predicate-based representation of documents is formalized for specifying knowledge about documents. Document filing and retrieval are predicate-driven. The filing criteria for the folders, which are specified in terms of predicates, govern the grouping of frame instances, regardless of their document types. We incorporated the notions of document type hierarchy and folder organization into the multilevel architecture of document storage. This architecture supports various text-based information retrieval techniques and content-based multimedia information retrieval techniques. The paper also proposes a knowledge-based query-preprocessing algorithm, which reduces the search space. For automating the document filing and retrieval, a predicate evaluation engine with a knowledge base is proposed. The learning agent is responsible for acquiring the knowledge needed by the evaluation engine.
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Fan, X., Ng, P.A. Personal Document Management and Retrieval: A Knowledge-Based Approach. Journal of Systems Integration 8, 287–312 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026461329174
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