Hi Darshana,
For my next project, I am thinking of parsing emails for date/time
information and stamping them as events if such information is found .
I have written a wiki about the ideas I have about the project.
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/ParsingEmailsProposal
I would like to know your opinion and suggestions for the project.
More ideas are also welcome :).
Whereas I think that your idea of automatic stamping is interesting I
also strongly recommend that you conduct some kind of feasibility study
before committing too much resources on this. Mechanical parsing of
dates from emails is of course easy but I don't -- at least at this
point -- see how you would be able to make proper classifications based
on those. Consider that a lot of mails have tags like "[a timestamp] XXX
wrote" or equivalent depending on the email client and used locale.
These timestamps clearly do not imply that the mail is an event; due to
differences in timezones the timestamp can even seem to be in the
future. And the list of similar annoyances continues... Hence, I do not
see how you would be able to make proper classification without good
semantic understanding of the mail content. If you have ideas on how to
implement that please send them to this forum and I will be happy to
participate in a discussion of their the pros and cons.
My 2 cents,
Markku
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