Modeling Complex Negotiations: The Quill Project

This is a poster in support of our long paper, "Quill: A Framework for Constructing Negotiated Texts, with a Case Study on the US Constitutional Convention of 1787". The paper describes a new approach to the presentation of records relating to formal negotiations and the texts that they create. It describes the architecture of a model, platform, and web-interface (https://www.quillproject.net) that can be used by domain-experts to convert the records typical of formal negotiations in to a model of decision-making (with minimal training). This model has implications for both research and teaching, by allowing for better qualitative and quantitative analysis of negotiations.