MINA - Multi-faceted Intelligent Negotiation Assistant
One of the purposes of the INI is to develop practical, open-access research-based online resources to aid researchers, educators and negotiators. MINA is such an innovation.
MINA is a voice and digital assistant for negotiators. It uses natural language processing and understanding, supported by artificial intelligence and machine learning, to analyze, contextualize and interpret complex verbal or written questions on negotiation. MINA instantly responds in voice or in print in summarized ways, for example prompting different possibilities or linking to sources, or providing straightforward answers.
Examples of random questions that MINA will be designed to answer are here.
Making the Intelligent Negotiation Assistant a reality
The INI is inviting negotiation scholars, trainers, researchers and practitioners to collaborate with experts in AI, knowledge management and dispute resolution, Governments and others, throughout the world. Negotiation differs across sectors, and there will be sector-specific hubs including business/commercial, financial, construction, multilateral/diplomacy, military, crisis, sports, labour, family, investor-State, environmental, urban conflict, organizational/ombudsman, aviation, peacekeeping, and others. To improve data quality, source materials will have to be researched, analysed and interpreted, and some empirical research will have to be started. The project also plans to harvest the tacit knowledge of practitioners in order to extract generally accepted principles in negotiation.
As a project of this scale and complexity requires considerable long-term financing, the INI is inviting funders and sponsors to help build the MINA Intelligent Negotiation Assistant.
The INI welcomes practitioners, researchers and other experts in negotiation, mediation and related disciplines who would like to contribute expertise to the innovative MINA project.
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