1. A computer-implemented method for facilitating document retrieval in an electronic document management system, the method comprising the steps of: identifying, by at least one processor, one or more patterns in a first user's creation or modification of metadata related to a plurality of documents that the first user has a first entitlement to access; and normalizing, by at least one processor, at least a portion of the metadata to mitigate a skewing effect from the one or more patterns on a document query from a second user, the second user having a second entitlement that is commensurate with the first entitlement.