EMMA: An E-Mail Management Assistant

  • Authors:
  • Van Ho;Wayne Wobcke;Paul Compton

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IAT '03 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe EMMA (E-Mail Management Assistant), ane-mail system that addresses the process of e-mail management, frominitially sorting messages into virtual folders, to prioritizing,reading, replying (automatic allyor semi-automatically), archivingand deleting mail items. EMMA attains a high degree of accuracy one-mail classification by using a rule-based approach known asRipple Down Rules (RDR) as the basis of rule construction. Incontrast to traditional rule-based systems, RDR systems provideextensive help to the user in defining rules and maintaining theconsistency of a rule base, making EMMA easy to use. We discuss theresults of evaluating the usability of EMMA on a trial ofindependent users.