{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Predicting Strategic Behavior from Free Text (Extended Abstract)","authors":[{"name":"Omer Ben-Porat","slug":"omer-ben-porat","given":"Omer","family":"Ben-Porat","affiliation":"Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management , Technion-Israel Institute of Technology , Israel"},{"name":"Lital Kuchy","slug":"lital-kuchy","given":"Lital","family":"Kuchy","affiliation":"Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management , Technion-Israel Institute of Technology , Israel"},{"name":"Sharon Hirsch","slug":"sharon-hirsch","given":"Sharon","family":"Hirsch","affiliation":"Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management , Technion-Israel Institute of Technology , Israel"},{"name":"Guy Elad","slug":"guy-elad","given":"Guy","family":"Elad","affiliation":"Faculty of Computer Science , Technion-Israel Institute of Technology , Israel"},{"name":"Roi Reichart","slug":"roi-reichart","given":"Roi","family":"Reichart","affiliation":"Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management , Technion-Israel Institute of Technology , Israel"},{"name":"Moshe Tennenholtz","slug":"moshe-tennenholtz","given":"Moshe","family":"Tennenholtz","affiliation":"Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management , Technion-Israel Institute of Technology , Israel"}],"abstract":"The connection between messaging and action is fundamental both to web applications, such as web search and sentiment analysis, and to economics. However, while prominent online applications exploit messaging in natural (human) language in order to predict non-strategic action selection, the economics literature focuses on the connection between structured stylized messaging to strategic decisions in games and multi-agent encounters. This paper aims to connect these two strands of research, which we consider highly timely and important due to the vast online textual communication on the web. Particularly, we introduce the following question: can free text expressed in natural language serve for the prediction of action selection in an economic context, modeled as a game? We initiate research on this question by providing preliminary positive results.","doi":"10.24963/ijcai.2020/699","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2020/699","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2020/0699.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2020/699.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2020/bibtex/699","volume":{"slug":"2020","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2020","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2020/","year":2020,"location":"Yokohama","dates":"January 2021 (postponed from 11-17 July 2020)","editors":"Christian Bessiere","isbn":"978-0-9992411-6-5","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization","doi_prefix":"10.24963/ijcai.2020"},"section":"Journal track","track":"Journal track","number":699,"pages":{"first":5020,"last":5024},"keywords":["Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: Economic Paradigms, Auctions and Market-Based Systems","Machine Learning Applications: Applications of Supervised Learning","Natural Language Processing: Text Classification"],"videos":[{"label":"Video","url":"https://videos.ijcai20.org/25034/file_25034.m3u8","length_sec":272,"provider":"hls"}],"references":[{"position":1,"raw":"[Altman et al., 2006] Alon Altman, Avivit Bercovici-Boden, and Moshe Tennenholtz. 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