Mail Mining: Extracting Collaborative Activities from E-Mail

Akiko Murakami and Koichi Takeda

Text mining has been successfully applied to Customer Relationship Management (FAQ generation, customer satisfaction, trend analysis, problem detection). Recently the scope of text mining has been extended to many different areas, including e-mail, patents, and biomedical documents. Since e-mail has a very unique combination of structured information (links, threads, sender/receiver fields, subject, timestamp, and so on) and textual information, e-mail, however, cannot be easily mined by known text mining approaches. This talk introduces a new, "multi-modal"text mining approach which has to be developed to obtain insights into human relationship, collaboration, etc.