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.

[EX Q]: Context: 'What type of place are you thinking of going camping to? Like what is the climate/area? More desert or forest, etc?' '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?'
Utterance: 'It'll be pretty dry. I don't want to catch a cold. '
[EX A]: Yes

[EX Q]: Context: 'Hi! How are you today?' 'I'm doing well! How are you?' 'I am doing quite well myself. Why are you camping today?'
Utterance: 'Well my sister and her husband are celebrating their anniversary this weekend so we volunteered to watch her daughters. We decided it would be fun to take her kids and ours camping! What about you? 🙂'
[EX A]: Yes

[EX Q]: Context: 'Alright, I think that's agreeable to me too. I really appreciate it, that means a lot to me and my family.' 'How many family members do you have? ' 'Me, my wife and our two kids.'
Utterance: 'I could use 1 package of firewood if your family has other heating options like a butane food cooker.'
[EX A]:
No