Sentiment analysis for software engineering

Sentiment analysis has been applied to various software engineering (SE) tasks, such as evaluating app reviews or analyzing developers' emotions in commit messages. Studies indicate that sentiment analysis tools provide unreliable results when used out-of-the-box, since they are not designed to process SE datasets. The silver bullet for a successful application of sentiment analysis tools to SE datasets might be their customization to the specific usage context.

# Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining # Computer Science # Software Engineering Research # Software Engineering Techniques and Practices

Bin Lin, Fiorella Zampetti, Gabriele Bavota, et al. (2018). "Sentiment analysis for software engineering". ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion). https://doi.org/10.1145/3180155.3180195