@inproceedings{f8d1887214324070a4888a9b6bf32859,
title = "A German Gold-Standard Dataset for Sentiment Analysis in Software Engineering",
abstract = "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.",
keywords = "developer communication. machine learning, requirements engineering, sentiment analysis",
author = "Martin Obaidi and Marc Herrmann and Elisa Schmid and Raymond Ochsner and Kurt Schneider and Jil Kl{\"u}nder",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2025 IEEE.; 33rd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, REW 2025, REW 2025 ; Conference date: 01-09-2025 Through 05-09-2025",
year = "2025",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/REW66121.2025.00018",
language = "English",
isbn = "979-8-3315-3835-4",
series = "Proceedings - IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "107--114",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2025 IEEE 33rd International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops, REW 2025",
address = "United States",
}