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However, not all process information is best captured in process models. N2 - Documenting business processes using process models is common practice in many organizations. T1 - Searching textual and model-based process descriptions based on a unified data format An evaluation with a large Austrian bank demonstrates that the additional consideration of textual descriptions allows us to identify more relevant processes from a repository.",

It automatically extracts activity-related and behavioral information from both descriptions types and stores it in a unified data format. In this paper, we address this problem and propose a technique that is capable of searching textual as well as model-based process descriptions. They are not capable of taking the information from textual descriptions into account and, therefore, provide incomplete search results. The problem with this supplementary use of textual descriptions is that existing techniques for automatically searching process repositories are limited to process models. Hence, many organizations complement these models with textual descriptions that specify additional details. An evaluation with a large Austrian bank demonstrates that the additional consideration of textual descriptions allows us to identify more relevant processes from a repository.Ībstract = "Documenting business processes using process models is common practice in many organizations. Documenting business processes using process models is common practice in many organizations.