Search and Discovery in Personal Email Collections (Tutorial Proposal)
Abstract
Email has been an essential communication medium for
many years. As a result, the information accumulated in
our mailboxes has become valuable for all of our personal
and professional activities. For years, researchers have
developed interfaces, models, and algorithms to facilitate
email search, discovery, and organization. This
tutorial brings together these diverse research
directions and provides both a historical background, as
well as a high-level overview of the recent advances
in the field. In particular, we lay out all of the components
needed in the design of email search engines,
including user interfaces, indexing, document and query
understanding, retrieval, ranking, evaluation, and data privacy. The tutorial
also goes beyond search, presenting recent work on intelligent task
assistance in email and a number of interesting future directions.
many years. As a result, the information accumulated in
our mailboxes has become valuable for all of our personal
and professional activities. For years, researchers have
developed interfaces, models, and algorithms to facilitate
email search, discovery, and organization. This
tutorial brings together these diverse research
directions and provides both a historical background, as
well as a high-level overview of the recent advances
in the field. In particular, we lay out all of the components
needed in the design of email search engines,
including user interfaces, indexing, document and query
understanding, retrieval, ranking, evaluation, and data privacy. The tutorial
also goes beyond search, presenting recent work on intelligent task
assistance in email and a number of interesting future directions.