Natural language that people use in electronic communication is far from perfect, due to the narrow channel. This also applies to electronic negotiation. We analyze characteristics of the language data obtained from electronic negotiation. We introduce a novel procedure for extracting and building a lexicon from raw noisy data. The data belong to a closed domain, which allows us to perform doma...

Electronic mailing systems (e-mail) are an important means to disseminate information within electronic networks. However, in large business communities including the hectic environment of hospitals it may be difficult to induce account holders to read the e-mail. In two mailings disseminated in a large university hospital we evaluated the impact of e-mail layout (three e-mail text versions, tw...

Farsi, also known as Persian, is the official language of Iran and Tajikistan and one of the two main languages spoken in Afghanistan. Farsi enjoys a unified Arabic script as its writing system. In this paper we briefly introduce the writing standards of Farsi and highlight problems one would face when analyzing Farsi electronic texts, especially during development of Farsi corpora regarding to...

The problem of generating synthetic data for the training and evaluating of document analysis systems has been widely addressed in recent years. With the increased interest in processing multilingual sources, there is a tremendous need to be able to rapidly generate data in new languages and scripts, without the need to develop specialized systems. We have developed an approach that uses langua...