A German Gold-Standard Dataset for Sentiment Analysis in Software Engineering
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| author | Obaidi, Martin Herrmann, Marc Schmid, Elisa Ochsner, Raymond Schneider, Kurt Klünder, Jil |
| author_facet | Obaidi, Martin Herrmann, Marc Schmid, Elisa Ochsner, Raymond Schneider, Kurt Klünder, Jil |
| contents | 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., 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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| spellingShingle | A German Gold-Standard Dataset for Sentiment Analysis in Software Engineering Obaidi, Martin Herrmann, Marc Schmid, Elisa Ochsner, Raymond Schneider, Kurt Klünder, Jil Software Engineering 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., 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. |
| title | A German Gold-Standard Dataset for Sentiment Analysis in Software Engineering |
| topic | Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07325 |