Detecting emails containing requests for action

NAACL HLT 2010 - Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 984-992

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

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION TASKS; EMAIL CLASSIFICATION; EMAIL MESSAGES; ERROR REDUCTION; EXTRANEOUS MATERIALS; FREE TEXTS; FUNCTIONAL ZONES; SPEECH ACTS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; TEXT PROCESSING;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 79952265238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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