I’ve recently added some sample code to our “examples” repository that demonstrates how to use SaffronMemoryBase running on SaffronSierra to do basic email classification. The example leverages the convenience of labels within Gmail to provide the “labels” for classifying future emails.
If you have a Gmail account (or a Google Apps account) then you already know that as emails come in you can associate them with labels. You might have labels such as “accounts”, “soccer”, “music”, “work”, etc… (those are some of mine anyway). As I started thinking about building an email classification example it occurred to me that the labels within Gmail would provide a nice, easy way of doing classification. By “labeling” emails in Gmail I’ve already made the statement, “This email is about work”, or “This email is about soccer”. Why not leverage that hard work?
