A benchmark study on sentiment analysis for software engineering research

A recent research trend has emerged to identify developers' emotions, by applying sentiment analysis to the content of communication traces left in collaborative development environments. Trying to overcome the limitations posed by using off-the-shelf sentiment analysis tools, researchers recen...

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Published in2018 IEEE/ACM 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) pp. 364 - 375
Main Authors Novielli, Nicole, Girardi, Daniela, Lanubile, Filippo
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY, USA ACM 28.05.2018
SeriesACM Conferences
Subjects
Benchmark testing
Collaboration
Communication Channels
Human-centered computing > Collaborative and social computing > Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
Human-centered computing > Collaborative and social computing > Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms > Computer supported cooperative work
Information systems > Information retrieval > Retrieval tasks and goals
Information systems > Information retrieval > Retrieval tasks and goals > Sentiment analysis
Labeling
NLP
Sentiment analysis
Social Software Engineering
Software
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Collaboration in software development
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Collaboration in software development > Programming teams
Software engineering
social software engineering
NLP
sentiment analysis
communication channels
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ISBN9781450357166
1450357164
ISSN2574-3864
DOI10.1145/3196398.3196403

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Summary:A recent research trend has emerged to identify developers' emotions, by applying sentiment analysis to the content of communication traces left in collaborative development environments. Trying to overcome the limitations posed by using off-the-shelf sentiment analysis tools, researchers recently started to develop their own tools for the software engineering domain. In this paper, we report a benchmark study to assess the performance and reliability of three sentiment analysis tools specifically customized for software engineering. Furthermore, we offer a reflection on the open challenges, as they emerge from a qualitative analysis of misclassified texts.1
ISBN:9781450357166
1450357164
ISSN:2574-3864
DOI:10.1145/3196398.3196403