Introduction - Methods for Mining and Summarizing Text Conversations - page 10

Email-1 from Jane

Hi Mark and Kai,
I was thinking of going to Mexico over the spring break.
Would you like to join me?
J

Email-1.1 from Mark (reply-all)

Email-1.2 from Kai (reply-all)

>Hi Mark and Kai,
>I was thinking of going to Mexico over the
spring break .
great idea!
>Would you like to Join me?
I am not sure I have enough money :-(
How much would it cost?
cheers, Mark

>Hi Mark and Kai,
>I was thinking of going to Mexico over the spring break.
>Would you like to Join me?
No Mexico, sorry, I need to catch up with 502.
By the way I am working on the assignment. Do you guys
have any idea on how to deal with Q1? I do not even
understand the question
thxs, Kai

Email-1.1.1 from Jane (reply-all)

>>Hi Mark and Kai,
>>I was thinking of going to Mexico over the
spring break.
>great idea!
>>Would you like to Join me?
>I am not sure I have enough money :-(
>How much would it cost?
I have just checked on the Web and it is really
expensive.
What about going skiing for a few days?
J

Email-1.2.1 from Mark (reply-all)

....
>No Mexico, sorry, I need to catch up with 502.
>By the way I am working on the assignment. Do
you guys have
>any idea on how to deal with Q1? I do not even
>understand the question
I am also having problems. I do not like this
assignment :-(
M>

Email-1.1.1.1 from Mark (to Jane)

Email-1.2.2 from Jane (reply-all)
....
>No Mexico, sorry, I need to catch up with 502.
>By the way I am working on the assignment. Do
you guys have
>any idea on how to deal with Q1? I do not even
>understand the question
I have some ideas. Let's talk tomorrow at UBC
after class.
J

>>>Hi Mark and Kai,
>>>I was thinking of going to Mexico over the
spring break.
>>great idea!
>>>Would you like to Join me?
>>I am not sure I have enough money :-(
>>How much would it cost?
>I have just checked on the Web and it is really
expensive.
>What about going skiing for a few days?
too cold this time of the year
see you in class or after the break
take care, Mark

Figure 1.4: Sample synthetic email conversation. The conversation is initiated by Jane (top email) and
involves two other participants, Mark and Kai. In each email, new text is in black, while text quoted from
preceding emails is in gray. The arrows indicate the reply-to relation.