Working documents automatic generation using an adaptive editor

Abstract

The production process of documents was deeply transformed by the information technology influence on document writing activities. The wide use of personal computers produced a transformation of the document creation process. It is becoming a process of transformation and aggregation of documents. The different phases of this process are becoming more rapid due to the reusability of available documents by means of the cut and paste functionality. Internet diffusion is improving transformation of the document production process according to a co-operative approach. Indeed, the Internet is making available a large and growing amount of information, and focuses its attention on global information starting from local information. Locally and globally available information may be used to form a new document according to copyright problems. It is not, however, easy to retrieve and organise the large amount of information potentially available on the Internet according to the author's information goals. In this context there is a need for tools for editing and searching documents, that enable the automatic creation of personalised working documents. The aim of the paper is to define an approach for the on-line driven creation of documents, starting from the definition of their structures using shapes and semantics of their information.