the example of fig4 a along with other examples presented in this disclosure illustrate application of the disclosed techniques in the context of legal knowledge however it should be understood that in principle the techniques described herein may be extended to any type of knowledge generating workflow such as for example medical diagnostics or financial advice four basic processes are shown in fig4 b query processes lawyer operation processes document information sharing processes and client operation processes these basic processes and their related sub processes may be combined and linked together to form a complete process flow and are i translated into bpmn sub processes and flow modeling and or ii kpml based sub processes and flow modeling both options leading to their specific executable languages for example fig4 b provides an example process flow and its later conversion into a knowledge based operation based on standard bpmn processes some of which are illustrated in fig4 a fig5 a provides an example of the knowledge process automation procedure 500 as it may be implemented in different embodiments knowledge user input 505 comprising knowledge information is provided by a knowledge user this knowledge user input 505 is converted into a structured knowledge document 510 i e a document where the information is structured next extraction is performed for example through specific coding and or.