Sentiment analysis for software engineering: how far can we go?
Abstract
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.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{Lin-al:ICSE18,
author = {Bin Lin and
Fiorella Zampetti and
Gabriele Bavota and
Massimiliano Di Penta and
Michele Lanza and
Rocco Oliveto},
title = {Sentiment analysis for software engineering: how far can we go?},
booktitle = {ICSE},
pages = {94--104},
publisher = {{ACM}},
year = {2018},
}