Entity Extraction from Business Emails

Email still plays an important role in today's business communication thanks to its simplicity, flexibility, low cost, and compatibility of diversified types of information. However processing the large amount of emails received consumes tremendous time and human power for a business. In order to quickly deciphering information and locate business-related information from emails received from a business, a computerized solution is required. In this paper, we have proposed a comprehensive mechanism to extract important information from emails. The proposed solution integrates semantic web technology with natural language processing and information retrieval. It enables automatic extraction of important entities from an email and makes batch processing of business emails efficient. The proposed mechanism has been used in a Transportation company.