Senti4SD

Senti4SD is an emotion polarity classifier specifically trained to support sentiment analysis in developers' communication channels. Senti4SD is trained and evaluated on a gold standard of over 4K posts extracted from Stack Overflow. It is part of the Collab Emotion Mining Toolkit, (EMTk).

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Please, cite the following paper if you intend to use our tool for your own research:

Calefato, F., Lanubile, F., Maiorano, F., Novielli N. (2018) "Sentiment Polarity Detection for Software Development," Empirical Software Engineering, 23(3), pp:1352-1382, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-017-9546-9. (BibTeX)

NOTE: You will need to install Git LFS extension to check out this project. Once installed and initialized, simply run:

$ git lfs clone https://github.com/collab-uniba/Senti4SD.git

How do I get set up?

To set up the tool, simply run the following script from the command line:

$ sh requirements.sh

To run the script you need:

• Java 8
• R

The script will also install, if not already present, three R packages:

• Caret
• LiblineaR
• e1071

Running

To classify your data using Senti4SD, execute the following instruction from the command line:

$ cd ClassificationTask
$ sh classificationTask.sh inputCorpus.csv outputPredictions.csv

where inputCorpus.csv is a file containing the data you want to classify, considering a document for each line, and outputPredictions.csv is where the predictions will be saved. This last parameter is optional, if not present the output of the classification will be saved in a file called predictions.csv.

To see how the tool works, you can execute the following example:

$ cd ClassificationTask
$ sh classificationTask.sh Sample.csv

This will produce as output a csv file called predictions.csv.

Who do I talk to?

• Nicole Novielli
• Fabio Calefato