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Language Patterns in the Learning of Strategies from Negotiation Texts

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Advances in Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2006)

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The paper shows how to construct language patterns that signal influence strategies and tactical moves corresponding to such strategies. We apply corpus analysis methods to the extraction of certain multi-word patterns from the text data of electronic negotiations. The patterns thus acquired become features in the task of classifying those texts. A series of machine learning experiments predicts the negotiation outcome from the texts associated with first halves of negotiations. We compare the results with the classification of complete negotiations.

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Sokolova, M., Szpakowicz, S. (2006). Language Patterns in the Learning of Strategies from Negotiation Texts. In: Lamontagne, L., Marchand, M. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Canadian AI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4013. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11766247_25

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