Realization of Microsoft Outlook® Add-In for Language Based E-Mail Folder Classification

Web and desktop mail applications support multilingual features for composing and viewing e-mail messages in regional languages besides English language, however, they do not support automatic language based message classification. This paper surveys various online language detection and translation services and the use of Microsoft language translation service to classify incoming e-mail messages into language specific folders. It further reports design of an Add-in for Microsoft Outlook that can be used to improve the existing multi-lingual facilities in it by permitting automatic classification of incoming e-mail messages into different folders on the basis of the language used in the e-mail message.