TRIFU: the right information for yoU

The amount and complexity of information that is electronically available results in non efficient information retrieval. To tackle this problem we propose to use a document knowledge base that contains semantic and structural information concerning the retrievable documents that is extracted from the actual documents. We discuss how such a document knowledge base can be implemented based on description logics technology. We have previously used this technology successfully in a document management setting. We show that using such a document knowledge base results in support for advanced query functionality where structural, non structural and semantic information can be taken into account in an integrated way. The use of the document knowledge base supports retrieval and maintenance of information as well