Smart To-Do : Automatic Generation of To-Do Items from Emails
This addresses task management for email users, but it is incremental as it applies existing methods to a new application.
The paper tackled the problem of automatically generating To-Do items from emails where senders promise actions, introducing a new task and dataset, and achieved BLEU and ROUGE scores of 0.23 and 0.63 using a two-stage neural text generation process.
Intelligent features in email service applications aim to increase productivity by helping people organize their folders, compose their emails and respond to pending tasks. In this work, we explore a new application, Smart-To-Do, that helps users with task management over emails. We introduce a new task and dataset for automatically generating To-Do items from emails where the sender has promised to perform an action. We design a two-stage process leveraging recent advances in neural text generation and sequence-to-sequence learning, obtaining BLEU and ROUGE scores of 0:23 and 0:63 for this task. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to address the problem of composing To-Do items from emails.