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E-Mail on the Move: Categorization, Filtering, and Alerting on Mobile Devices with the ifMail Prototype

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Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access (MUIA 2003)

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We propose an integrated approach to email categorization, filtering, and alerting on mobile devices. After a general introduction to the problem, we present the ifMail prototype, capable of: categorize incoming email messages into pre-defined categories; filter and rank the categorized messages according to their importance; and alert the user on mobile devices when important messages are waiting to be read. The second part of the paper describes an extended evaluation of the ifMail prototype, whose results show the high effectiveness levels reached by the system.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine, Via delle Scienze, 206, Loc. Rizzi – Udine, 33100, Italy

    Marco Cignini, Stefano Mizzaro, Carlo Tasso & Andrea Virgili

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Strathclyde, Scotland

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  3. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine, Via delle Scienze, 206, Udine, Italy

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Cignini, M., Mizzaro, S., Tasso, C., Virgili, A. (2004). E-Mail on the Move: Categorization, Filtering, and Alerting on Mobile Devices with the ifMail Prototype. In: Crestani, F., Dunlop, M., Mizzaro, S. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access. MUIA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2954. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24641-1_9

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