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In the world of Internet today, huge amount of data is transferred between computers in the form of emails. Consequently, it is getting difficult to sort the important emails manually from the unimportant ones. Email classification has been extensively studied and researched in the past but most of the research has been in the field of spam detection and filtering. This paper focuses on classifying emails into custom folders that are relevant to the user. We have used two different approaches here—Naïve Bayes classifier and k-nearest neighbors algorithm. The Naïve Bayes classifier is based on a probabilistic model, while the k-nearest neighbors algorithm is based on a similarity measure with the training emails. We propose the method of using these two approaches in email classification, analyze the performance of these algorithms, and compare their results. Then, we propose some future work for further optimization and better efficiency.
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We would like to thank Prof. V.K. Sambhe for providing guidance to us in this project, giving important suggestions and helping in carefully reviewing this paper. We would also like to thank the other faculty members of the Computer Engineering and Information Technology Department of V.J.T.I. for their valuable inputs and suggestions.
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Bhadra, A., Hitawala, S., Modi, R., Salunkhe, S. (2018). Email Classification Using Supervised Learning Algorithms. In: Saeed, K., Chaki, N., Pati, B., Bakshi, S., Mohapatra, D. (eds) Progress in Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 564. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6875-1_9
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