Document properties and metadata

This question was posted in response to the following article: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/pro/using/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7c67.w.h tml

In the "Additional Metadata" dialogue box, what is the "Author Title" field for? 
I gather the "Description Writer" field is for the writer of the description, i.e., the name of the person who populated the "Description" field; so, by analogy, "Author Title" could be for the author of the title, i.e., the name of the person who populated the "Document Title" field.  But the different word order suggests that it might rather be for the title of the author of the document, such as "Attorney" or "Reporter".  Or is it for something else? 
And why isn't there a simple page in Adobe Help that lists these fields and tells us what each one is for?  That would seem to me to be elementary for any Help site:  provide hierarchically-arranged pages explaining each menu item and each field in each dialogue box.

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