Resolving Personal Names in Email Using Context Expansion

Abstract

This paper describes a computational approach to resolving the true referent of a named mention of a person in the body of an email. A generative model of mention generation is used to guide mention resolution. Results on three relatively small collections indicate that the accuracy of this approach compares favorably to the best known techniques, and results on the full CMU Enron collection indicate that it scales well to larger collections. 1