Concept features in Re:Agent, an intelligent Email agent
Published 1 January 1998
Gary Boone
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This paper has created an intelligent email agent that can learn actions such as filtering, prioritizing, downloading to palmtops, and forwarding cmail to voicemail using automatic feature extraction, and its new feature extraction approach is based on first learning concepts present within the mail.
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Article Free Access Share on Concept features in Re:Agent, an intelligent Email agent Author: Gary Boone Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Institute of TechnologyView Profile Authors Info & Claims AGENTS '98: Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agentsMay 1998 Pages 141–148https://doi.org/10.1145/280765.280791Published:01 May 1998Publication History 75citation1,464DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations75Total Downloads1,464Last 12 Months83Last 6 weeks24 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF
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