Semantic Email Addressing

Kassoff, Petrie, Zen, Genesereth

email semantic web forwarding content-based messaging filtering

@article{kassof:ieee-ic2009,
  title={Semantic Email Addressing},
  author={Michael Kassoff and Charles Petrie and
          Lee-Ming Zen and Michael Genesereth},
  booktitle={{IEEE} Internet Computing},
  year={2009},
  volume={13},
  number={1}
}

Email address is query over Semantic Web data/mashups

• FOAF, domain/corporate ontologies, etc

Examples

• Send message to building manager (regardless of specific person filling role)
• Send message to all lead developers of active projects in a particular research group

Queries are resolved by mail database based on known information, sent to specific set of actual email addresses

Some issues w/ typical mailing list issues, e.g., query results changing over time (need to archive message recipients or current query results)

Need flexible interface capable of presenting information drawn from ontolies on the fly so untrained users may construct queries easily