Patent ID: 8429141

Claim:
A method for providing a warning to a user of a missing attachment to an email, comprising: recognizing a natural language of text of an email; selecting a keyword list from a plurality of keyword lists, based on the recognized natural language, each of the plurality keyword lists being associated with a respective natural language and including at least one keyword, at least one of the keyword lists including a multi-sense keyword having a plurality of senses, wherein a first of the plurality of senses is recognized as referring to an attachment and a second of the plurality of senses is not recognized as referring to an attachment, the keyword list associatinq a part of speech with each keyword which has more than one part of speech and where at least one of the parts of speech is not recognized as being associated with an attachment; processing the text to identify an instance of a keyword that is in the selected keyword list, including confirming that the instance has the associated part of speech; for the identified instance, determining whether the keyword is a multi-sense keyword; with a computer processor, where the keyword is identified a multi-sense keyword, applying at least one sense-related rule to a portion of the text which includes the instance of the multi-sense keyword; and based on the application of the at least one sense-related rule, where the email lacks an attachment, providing a notification to the user.