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.
@article{arxiv.1803.06525,
title = {A Benchmark Study on Sentiment Analysis for Software Engineering Research},
author = {Nicole Novielli and Daniela Girardi and Filippo Lanubile},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.06525},
year = {2018}
}
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Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2018)