Investigator Raluca Musaloiu-E. writes:
Here is a paper published in the 3rd Conference on Email and Anti-Spam CEAS 2006 July 27-28, 2006, Mountain View, California: “Sorry, I Forgot the Attachment: Email Attachment Prediction” by Mark Dredze, John Blitzer and Fernando Pereira from the Computer and Information Sciences Department at University of Pennsylvania.
I cite from their abstract:
“Everyone knows the missing attachment problem; a single missing attachment generates a wave of emails from all the recipients notifying the sender of the error. We present an attachment prediction system to aid email users in attachment management. We present a method by which an intelligent system can inform the user when an outgoing email is missing an attachment. Additionally, the system could activate an attachment recommendation system, whereby suggested attachments are offered once the system determines the user is likely to include an attachment. We present promising initial results and discuss implications of our work.”