Can requests-for-action and commitments-to-act be reliably identified in email messages?

ADCS 2007 - Proceedings of the Twelfth Australasian Document Computing Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 48-55

  Lampert, Andrew ^a,b   Paris, Cécile ^a   Dale, Robert ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Document management; Document workflow; Email; Speech acts; Task management

Indexed keywords

ANNOTATION WORK; DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT; DOCUMENT WORKFLOW; EMAIL COMMUNICATION; EMAIL MESSAGES; SPEECH ACTS; TASK MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 66149160939     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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