Semantic Analysis of Email Using Domain Ontologies and WordNet

way many users exchange textual information. The problem of capturing and accessing knowledge in paper form has been supplanted by a problem of providing structure to vast amounts of electronic information. Most emailed communications cannot be retrieved in a timely manner, because even if they are accessible, there are no prevalent automated methods that characterize their content. Without such methods, finding the right piece of information in email corpora will become more and more diifcuit as the volume of emaiied information continues to increase. The development of collaborative knowledge management tools is an important step towards faster, more precise information browsing and retrieval; such tools create a central point of knowledge capture and access [ 1-31. Users of such tools can build semantic webs of richly structured knowledge. For example, a user can experiments and a scientific project, and the project and its participants. These semantic links provide important contextual information when browsing a semantic