CloSe: A Cloud SaaS for Semantic Document Composition

Abstract

Nowadays a large number of companies world-wide has moved their applications in the cloud, exploiting a lot of types of functions, such as customer relationship management, human resources, accounting and document sharing. In this work we propose "'CloSe"', a cloud system for document composition, which offers editing/composing aiding services by exploiting semantic based technology. Close is the evolution, in cloud technology, of a monolithic system architecture for document processing, based on semantic methodologies, that we have developed in the past years. We intend to migrate our system procedures to the Internet Cloud technology that guarantees several advantages in terms of usability, scalability and fault tolerance. The proposed system will help the users in the process of writing documents, exploiting information and data contained in apposite document bases, collected from heterogeneous sources, in order to suggest proper fragments to be inserted into the document. We have produced a system prototype that realizes semantic retrieval functionalities, in order to assist the specialist and generic user in the document composition aiding activities. Moreover we have reported some experimental results that we have carried out for evaluating the impact of the system on enhancing user effort in composing documents by suggesting appropriate document segments, which encouraged us to extend the system in the cloud.