Email Prioritization Project

Goals

Create a Thunderbird plugin that will rank user emails by "importance" computed based on the user's past interactions with similar emails.

Resources

Basic Filtering of Email

• Understanding Email Use: Predicting Action on a Message (Dabbish, 2005)
• Suggesting Email View Filters for Triage and Search (Dredze, 2009)
• The Learning Behind the Gmail Priority Inbox (Aberdeen)

Classifying Email based on User Interaction

• Attention-Sensitive Alerting (Horvitz, 1999)