Let's Negotiate! A Survey of Negotiation Dialogue Systems
This provides a foundational overview for researchers in AI and dialogue systems, though it is incremental as it synthesizes existing work rather than introducing new methods.
The paper tackles the lack of a systematic review in negotiation dialogue systems by surveying recent studies, covering benchmarks, evaluations, and methodologies, and discussing future directions like multi-modal and multi-party scenarios.
Negotiation is a crucial ability in human communication. Recently, there has been a resurgent research interest in negotiation dialogue systems, whose goal is to create intelligent agents that can assist people in resolving conflicts or reaching agreements. Although there have been many explorations into negotiation dialogue systems, a systematic review of this task has not been performed to date. We aim to fill this gap by investigating recent studies in the field of negotiation dialogue systems, and covering benchmarks, evaluations and methodologies within the literature. We also discuss potential future directions, including multi-modal, multi-party and cross-cultural negotiation scenarios. Our goal is to provide the community with a systematic overview of negotiation dialogue systems and to inspire future research.