This paper is talking about an application of DL related to the Escrire project whose objective is to compare three knowledge representation (KR) formalisms (conceptual graphs, description logics and object-based representation systems), for the content-based representation and manipulation of textual documents. A domain ontology is used in order to annotate documents. The ontology, annotations and queries are described using a pivot format based on XML, and are translated into each of the three formalisms, where inference mechanisms are used for query answering. In this paper, we give a short presentation of the Escrire project, and we give a first synthesis of the translation process from the pivot format into a description logics.