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Language of Bargaining Dataset
Dataset Description
Dataset Summary
This repo contains the Natural Language (NL) and Alternating Offer (AO) negotation transcript data as described in https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.735.pdf.
The data includes the "Bargaining Act" annotations for the NL setting.
Dataset Information
Within the negotiations-data.zip
compressed folder you will find two folders containing the AO and NL data.
Alternating Offers (AO)
The AO data is found in the folder ao
. The folder contains 230 files, each one representing a single negotation conducted in the AO setting. They are in JSONL format where each line adheres to the following schema:
{
"id": string,
"role": string seller|buyer,
"message": float,
"created_at": datetime,
"status": string
}
There are multiple ways you could load this data, here is an example using the pandas Python package for loading a single negotiation transcript, e.g. ao/299.jsonl
.
import pandas as pd
ao_file = 'ao/299.jsonl'
negotiation_df = pd.read_json(ao_file, orient='records', lines=True)
Natural language (NL)
The NL data is found in the folder nl
. The folder contains 178 files, each one representing a single negotation conducted in the NL setting. They are in JSON format and adhere to the following schema:
{
"duration_min": float,
"turns": [
[
{
"ID": string,
"Role": string seller|buyer,
"Word": string,
"Span": string,
"Spoken Numeric": string,
"Numeric": string,
"Category": string,
"Firm or Soft": string,
"External Incentive": string
},
...
{
...
},
]
]
}
There are multiple ways you could load this data, here is an example using the json and pandas Python package for loading a single negotiation transcript, e.g. nl/100.json
.
import pandas as pd
import json
nl_file = 'nl/100.json'
with open(nl_file, 'r') as f:
data = json.load(f)
# data contains the data, in json, of the entire negotiation
for utt in data['turns']:
turn_df = pd.DataFrame.from_records(utt)
# turn_df contains a single utterance, as a dataframe, where each row corresponds to one transcribed word.
# Process and do something with turn_df here...
Annotation Instructions
Below is a relevant portion of the instructions provided to annotators. It shoud help clarify the data:
- Span:
x
on all tokens included in the actual offer- Be inclusive - main idea is to exclude entirely different sentences
- Spoken Numeric
t
: if thousands place is spoken aloud (234,000), else blank
- Numeric (i.e. offer amount)
- Single number (plain numeric, thousands)
- 220
- Range or Bounds
- [220, 225] [,225] [220,]
- Single number (plain numeric, thousands)
- Category
n
: Numeric Offer (common case) - used for new numeric offers (numbers that haven’t been mentioned yet)p
: Push (request the other person move in my direction, mainly needs to reference offer made by other party)a
: Allowance (offer to move in the other persons’ direction without explicit number, needs to reference offer made by other party)c
: Comparisons to prices of external stuff (price of comparable house, price of imaginary existing offers)r
: Repetition of previous offer, non-committale
: End of negotiation via offer acceptance entering mutual common ground (e.g., offer given followed by, “That works for me, let’s do it.”) - explicitly only happens once.
- Firm or Soft
s
: Soft number (e.g., 220ish)- Suffixes: “-ish”, prefixes: “around”, etc.
f
: Firm number
- External Incentive
y
: speaker incorporates as a part of the offer non-monetary incentives (landscaping, sale/offer timing, cash payment of amount vs mortgage), needs to reference an offer.
Anonymizing
We replaced all occurences of participant names with the token [PERSON]
.
Citation
If you use this dataset in your research or publication, please cite it as:
@inproceedings{heddaya-etal-2023-language,
title = "Language of Bargaining",
author = "Heddaya, Mourad and
Dworkin, Solomon and
Tan, Chenhao and
Voigt, Rob and
Zentefis, Alexander",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = jul,
year = "2023",
address = "Toronto, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.735",
pages = "13161--13185",
}