QUESTOR -- Automatic Searching for Reports

Vast arrays of reporting are nowadays in use, allowing ever increasing flexibility and control over the displayed results. However, as IT developed and became available to all business domains, the number of reports used by companies started to challenge the possibility of good management. The European funded project Questor aims to create a revolutionary product that will eliminate the complexities inherent in the report management workflow. The motivation of this project is to substitute the time consuming manual search for information in reports with an automatic one. The final purpose is to make querying the report database as simple as addressing a question in natural language. This paper gives an overview over the concept of the Questor project, its software architecture and its preliminary results.