Semantic Email

We would like to announce our research in the area of Semantic Email - 
where we are aspiring to achieve a framework that supports the exchange 
of semantically-annotated email in order to expose knowledge about:

* artefacts of the email communication process (people, tasks etc)
* evolution of the communication over time (thread structure)
* ad-hoc workflows taking place within email (information requests, 
meeting scheduling, task delegation etc)

to machines. As a result, these can support email users with correctly 
interpreting, handling and keeping track of email messages. Thus 
Semantic Email can have a direct benefit in these areas:

* Email Visualisation
* Personal Information Management
* Workflow Management

The theoritical aspect of our research on Semantic Email  is 
encapsulated within the sMail Conceptual Framework. This framework has 
been applied in Semanta - which consists of plug-ins/extensions to 
existing mail user agents that support Semantic Email. Furthermore, 
Semanta is grounded within the Social Semantic Desktop of the Nepomuk 
project [1]. For more information, including details about the concept 
and models, list of publications, demo's of Semanta etc., please refer 
to [2].

We have also set up a mailing list for people who are interested in this 
domain in general, i.e. not-specific to our work. This list is an 
attempt to bring together researchers that are working on, or have a 
particular interest in the area of Semantic Email - which includes any 
attempt and ideas regarding the possibility of giving semantics to any 
aspect of electronic mail communication processes. You can send messages 
to this mailing list via semantic-email@lists.deri.org. For mailing list 
subscription refer to [3].

Thanks for your time,

Simon Scerri,
simon [dot] scerri [at] deri [dot] org
Semantic Information Systems and Language Engineering Group (SmILE)
Digital Enterprise Research Institute,
National University of Ireland Galway (DERI Galway)
+353 (0) 914 950 81

[1] http://www.nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/
[2] http://smile.deri.ie/projects.html#semanticemail
[3] http://lists.deri.org/mailman/listinfo/semantic-email

Received on Friday, 4 April 2008 17:33:20 UTC