RADAR: A personal assistant that learns to reduce email overload

AAAI Workshop - Technical Report

Volumn WS-08-04, Issue , 2008, Pages 15-21

  Freed, Michael ^a   Carbonell, Jaime ^b   Gordon, Geoff ^b   Hayes, Jordan ^c   Myers, Brad ^b   Siewiorek, Daniel ^b   Smith, Stephen ^b   Steinfeld, Aaron ^b   Tomasic, Anthony ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^c Bitway Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AI TECHNOLOGIES; ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; COTS TOOL; E-MAIL OVERLOAD; EMAIL CLIENTS; HUMAN EVALUATION; MACHINE-LEARNING; PERSONAL ASSISTANTS; SYSTEM COMPONENTS; TASK MANAGEMENT; TEST CONDITION; USER PERFORMANCE;

EDUCATION; MACHINE COMPONENTS;

RADAR;

EID: 66149160375     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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