Emails, for Example, Are Semi-Structured by Sender, Recipient, Subject, Date, Etc. , or with the Help of Machine Learning, Are Automatically Categorized into...
Emails, for example, are semi-structured by Sender, Recipient, Subject, Date, etc., or with the help of machine learning, are automatically categorized into folders, like Inbox, Spam, Promotions, etc.
Is email structured or unstructured?
Email: Email has some internal structure thanks to its metadata, and we sometimes refer to it as semi-structured. However, its message field is unstructured and traditional analytics tools cannot parse it.
XML, other markup languages, email, and EDI are all forms of semi-structured data. OEM (Object Exchange Model) was created prior to XML as a means of self-describing a data structure.
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