A German Gold-Standard Dataset for Sentiment Analysis in Software Engineering

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel des SammelwerksProceedings - 2025 IEEE 33rd International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, REW 2025
Herausgeber (Verlag)Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Seiten107-114
Seitenumfang8
ISBN (elektronisch)9798331538347
ISBN (Print)979-8-3315-3835-4
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1 Sept. 2025
Veranstaltung33rd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, REW 2025 - Valencia, Spanien
Dauer: 1 Sept. 20255 Sept. 2025

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NameProceedings - IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops
ISSN (Print)2770-6826
ISSN (elektronisch)2770-6834

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Sentiment analysis is an essential technique for investigating the emotional climate within developer teams, contributing to both team productivity and project success. Existing sentiment analysis tools in software engineering primarily rely on English or non-German gold-standard datasets. To address this gap, our work introduces a German dataset of 5,949 unique developer statements, extracted from the German developer forum Android-Hilfe.de. Each statement was annotated with one of six basic emotions, based on the emotion model by Shaver et al. [1], by four German-speaking computer science students. Evaluation of the annotation process showed high interrater agreement and reliability. These results indicate that the dataset is sufficiently valid and robust to support sentiment analysis in the German-speaking software engineering community. Evaluation with existing German sentiment analysis tools confirms the lack of domain-specific solutions for software engineering. We also discuss approaches to optimize annotation and present further use cases for the dataset.

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A German Gold-Standard Dataset for Sentiment Analysis in Software Engineering. / Obaidi, Martin; Herrmann, Marc; Schmid, Elisa et al.
Proceedings - 2025 IEEE 33rd International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, REW 2025. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2025. S. 107-114 (Proceedings - IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops).

Publikation: Beitrag in Buch/Bericht/Sammelwerk/KonferenzbandAufsatz in KonferenzbandForschungPeer-Review

Obaidi, M, Herrmann, M, Schmid, E, Ochsner, R, Schneider, K & Klünder, J 2025, A German Gold-Standard Dataset for Sentiment Analysis in Software Engineering. in Proceedings - 2025 IEEE 33rd International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, REW 2025. Proceedings - IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., S. 107-114, 33rd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, REW 2025, Valencia, Spanien, 1 Sept. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/REW66121.2025.00018, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.07325
Obaidi, M., Herrmann, M., Schmid, E., Ochsner, R., Schneider, K., & Klünder, J. (2025). A German Gold-Standard Dataset for Sentiment Analysis in Software Engineering. In Proceedings - 2025 IEEE 33rd International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, REW 2025 (S. 107-114). (Proceedings - IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/REW66121.2025.00018, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.07325
Obaidi M, Herrmann M, Schmid E, Ochsner R, Schneider K, Klünder J. A German Gold-Standard Dataset for Sentiment Analysis in Software Engineering. in Proceedings - 2025 IEEE 33rd International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, REW 2025. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2025. S. 107-114. (Proceedings - IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops). doi: 10.1109/REW66121.2025.00018, 10.48550/arXiv.2507.07325
Obaidi, Martin ; Herrmann, Marc ; Schmid, Elisa et al. / A German Gold-Standard Dataset for Sentiment Analysis in Software Engineering. Proceedings - 2025 IEEE 33rd International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, REW 2025. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2025. S. 107-114 (Proceedings - IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops).
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