Biologeek, an intelligent system for service mashups tuned for recipe processing and rendering

Abstract

Biologeek has been designed to provide users a way to create and share mashups of web services, exploiting online content processing and communication facilities. It combines intuitive graphical user interfaces with powerful techniques such as Natural Language Processing and Service Oriented Architecture to provide an easy-to-use, game-like, composition tool. We have chosen cooking context to illustrate promises held by such a tool. As a matter of fact more and more people search recipes online, and then get entangled with all (often useless) information around the very recipe they have found, instead of getting straight of the line important notices on the content regarding (e.g.) their health status or taste. The purpose of this paper is to show how Biologeek can help users with food planning and cooking process by assisting them to intuitively create, configure and share routine processes for online recipe material. The Biologeek system is still under construction: in this paper we will focus on motivations and the implemented initial architecture.