Design and Implementation of A Classifier for Chinese E-mails

Many E-mail clients allow their users to define rules for filtering. However, any user that keeps a large amount of E-mails will find it is difficult to maintain such a set of rules. This paper presents a mail classification system for Chinese mails. We use different classifiers for different feature sets, and combine some classifiers to classify the mails. We embed our email classifier in a mail server to tag mails with class labels. The users can category their mails directly according to class labels. This will reduce the burden of users to classify the mails and facilitate the use of setting those complex rules. Experiments show that the purposed system has its acceptable accuracy. keyword : Email, information retrieval, document classification, Chinese processing