Bifrost inbox organizer: giving users control over the inbox

ABSTRACT

Many email users, especially managers, receive too many email messages to read in the time available to them. The solutions available today often require programming skills on the part of the user to define rules for prioritizing messages or moving messages to folders. We propose a different approach: categorize messages in the inbox with predefined rules that do not require maintenance and are scalable to handle anything from 50 to thousands of messages.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.4 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS
      H.4.3 Communications Applications
          Subjects: Electronic mail

Additional Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.2 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
      I.2.7 Natural Language Processing
          Subjects: Text analysis
  I.5 PATTERN RECOGNITION
      I.5.4 Applications
          Subjects: Text processing
  I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING
      I.7.1 Document and Text Editing
          Subjects: Document management
      I.7.5 Document Capture
          Subjects: Document analysis

General Terms:
Experimentation, Management, Reliability

Keywords:
categorization, email, inbox, organize, prioritization