A Gold Standard for Emotion Annotation in Stack Overflow

Abstract

Software developers experience and share a wide range of emotions throughout a rich ecosystem of communication channels. A recent trend that has emerged in empirical software engineering studies is leveraging sentiment analysis of developers' communication traces. We release a dataset of 4,800 questions, answers, and comments from Stack Overflow, manually annotated for emotions. Our dataset contributes to the building of a shared corpus of annotated resources to support research on emotion awareness in software development.

arXiv commentTo appear in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR '18) Data Showcase Track, 28-29 May, Gothenburg, Sweden