TASK DEFINITION: The input is taken from a negotiation between two participants who take the role of campsite neighbors and negotiate for Food, Water, and Firewood packages, based on their individual preferences and requirements. Given an utterance and recent dialogue context containing past 3 utterances (wherever available), output Yes if the utterance contains the small-talk strategy, otherwise output No. small-talk is a cooperative negotiation strategy. It is used for discussing topics apart from the negotiation, in an attempt to build a rapport with the opponent. For example, discussing how the opponent is doing during the pandemic or sharing excitement for the camping trip.
PROBLEM: Context: 'Forest, for sure. Deserts have scorpions and tarantulas and I'm scared of those.' 'Amen! Me too! 🙂 I too was thinking of going to the forest. Is your forest going to be wet or pretty dry?' 'It'll be pretty dry. I don't want to catch a cold. '
Utterance: 'I wanted to a rainforest near where I live. I love listening to the rain. Did you think that you were going to need all of the firewood since you can get dry wood from the trees?'

SOLUTION: Yes

PROBLEM: Context: 'I'm more than willing to help you to the best of my ability. I understand and appreciate the difficult situation you find yourself in. How many packages of food and water do you think you will need for your additional guests? How much wood do you need since you are saying you don't need much?' 'Thanks for your understanding well I think if possible then to meet the situation then how bout 3 food and 2 water then you get all the wood ? That way you can have awesome campfires lasting through the night, we will be going to sleep extra early to wake up very early so we do not need all that wood, as much as we need food to replenish our energy and be ready for another day of long walks to see as much as we can from nature 🙂' 'I agree with you that campfires are awesome and I do find them to be be quite useful. I'm not as early of a riser as you are unfortunately! 🙂 I'm willing to accept your offer on food as long as you could please consider my needs for water. I am a very active hiker. While I don't need much food for my hikes I do require a lot of water. I once went on a hiking trip when I was new to the activity and ran out of water. I got lost and almost dehydrated! Ever since then it's been very important to me to have as much water as possible. What would it take in order for me to get as much water as possible keeping in mind that I'm willing to give you 3 food. '
Utterance: 'Thank you for the food and I understand we do have to think about water being by far the most important thing in life since it bascially is right 🙂 and well how about then we go do two waters for you and one wood then so then we can have that wood for just in case and we can all be happy ?? thanks for your understanding'

SOLUTION: Yes

PROBLEM: Context: 'Hi there. ' 'So why did you decide to come camping?🙂' 'I think it will be fun. I was wondering what your preferences are for the extra items we can bring?'
Utterance: 'I was hoping for food as I forgot a bag at of stuff at home. I also was hoping to star gaze but I may not have enough wood to keep warm.'

SOLUTION:
No

