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  <Title>Task-focused Summarization of Email</Title>
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7 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we have presented aspects of SmartMail, which provides a task-oriented summary of email messages. This summary is produced by identifying the task-related sentences in the message and then reformulating each task-related sentence as a brief (usually imperative) summation of the task. The set of tasks extracted and reformulated from a given email message is thus a task-focused summary of that message.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We plan to conduct user studies by distributing the prototype as an Outlook add-in to volunteers who would use it to read and process their own mail over a period of several weeks. We intend to measure more than the precision and recall of our classifier by observing how many identified tasks users actually add to their &amp;quot;to do&amp;quot; list and by administering qualitative surveys of user satisfaction.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The ability to reformulate tasks is in principle separate from the identification of tasks. In our planned usability study we will distribute variants of the prototype to determine the effect of reformulation. Do users prefer to be presented with the extracte d sentences with no additional processing, the tasks reformulated as described in Section 5, or an even more radical reformulation to a telegraphic form consisting of a verb plus object, such as Send information or Schedule subjects?</Paragraph>
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