PERC: a personal email classifier

  • Authors:
  • Shih-Wen Ke;Chris Bowerman;Michael Oakes

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK;School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK;School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK

  • Venue:
  • ECIR'06 Proceedings of the 28th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Improving the accuracy of assigning new email messages to small folders can reduce the likelihood of users creating duplicate folders for some topics. In this paper we presented a hybrid classification model, PERC, and use the Enron Email Corpus to investigate the performance of kNN, SVM and PERC in a simulation of a real-time situation. Our results show that PERC is significantly better at assigning messages to small folders. The effects of different parameter settings for the classifiers are discussed.