https://github.com/yusufsn/EclipseForumData

This is a research artifact for the paper: How are Project-Specific Forums Utilized? A Study of Participation, Content, and Sentiment in the Eclipse Ecosystem. This artifact is a repository consisting of collected dataset including (i) 289,061 threads, (ii) 216,864 extracted links from threads, (iii) 2,170 contributors, and the results of our qualitative analysis, (i) 1,142 manually annotated type of discussion and (ii) 1,142 manually annotated sentiment analysis. The purposes of this artifact are to enable researchers to replicate our mixed-methods quantitative results of the paper, and to reuse the dataset for further software engineering research.

• LICENSE.md - CC0 1.0 Universal.
• README.md - this file.
• dataset: directory for the dataset
  • 289061_threads.csv.zip - 289,061 collected main threads of all users without post from webmaster (.zip format)
  • 216864_links.csv.zip - 216,864 extracted links from collected threads (.zip format)
  • 2170_contributors.csv - 2,170 list of contributions (.csv format)
• Results of manual analysis:
  • Manual annotation of discussion type
  • Manual annotation of sentiment analysis

• Published version in Journal of Empirical Software Engineering
• Preprint version in ArXiv

• Yusuf Sulistyo Nugroho
• Syful Islam
• Keitaro Nakasai
• Ifraz Rehman
• Hideaki Hata
• Raula Gaikovina Kula
• Meiyappan Nagappan
• Kenichi Matsumoto