METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUMMARIZING EMAILS AND EXTRACTING TASKS

摘要

The disclosed invention performs a set of operations on an email to analyze the text and generate a coherent summary. Email summaries are generated by applying a coherence layer after a ranking process. Analyzing how sentences relate to each other via discourse markers and other linguistic devices aids in enhancing coherence of the email summaries. Output summaries are more coherent and easier to understand because they mimic the flow of ideas contained in the original message instead of merely being a collection of extracted sentences. Tasks may also be extracted from the text of the email to assist users in keeping track of tasks that they receive via email.