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Furthermore, the authors outline research challenges in the field of quality assessment of textual process descriptions for the PA.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n\nResearch limitations\/implications<\/jats:title>\nThis paper addresses the needs of any PA officer who has to write an official procedure or operational manual, and should be studied by researchers who wish to provide automatic strategies to check the quality of these documents.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n\nOriginality\/value<\/jats:title>\nText quality issues have been addressed in various fields (e.g. requirements engineering), but not in the area of BP descriptions of PAs. The contribution consists in the study of the quality issues that occur and create problems in the practice of this particular domain. 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