Analysis of User Comments: An Approach for Software Requirements Evolution

1. Does the paper propose a new opinion mining approach?

No

2. Which opinion mining techniques are used (list all of them, clearly stating their name/reference)?

Aspect and Sentiment Unification Model (ASUM). Yohan Jo and A.H. Oh. Aspect and sentiment unification model for online review analysis. In Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining, pages 815–824. ACM, 2011.

3. Which opinion mining approaches in the paper are publicly available? Write down their name and links. If no approach is publicly available, leave it blank or None.

It seems that ASUM is not publicly available. Apparently it used to be on https://github.com/smutahoang/svtm There is a reimplementation of this algorithm by Franchis Javier https://github.com/franchisjavier/TFM---Aspect-extraction-algorithms and a preprocessing converting text to the format ASUM expects, ASUM Formatter https://github.com/sjblair/ASUMFormatter

4. What is the main goal of the whole study?

Understanding how to revise the requirements based on the user comments

5. What the researchers want to achieve by applying the technique(s) (e.g., calculate the sentiment polarity of app reviews)?

Compute sentiment of the user comments

6. Which dataset(s) the technique is applied on?

User comments from the Android Market, for the following applications: Calorie Tracker, Mint.com Personal Finance, and Facebook for Android

7. Is/Are the dataset(s) publicly available online? If yes, please indicate their name and links.

No

8. Is the application context (dataset or application domain) different from that for which the technique was originally designed?

Yes, ASUM has been originally designed and evaluated on a collection of electronic device reviews from Amazon and the collection of restaurant reviews from Yelp.

9. Is the performance (precision, recall, run-time, etc.) of the technique verified? If yes, how did they verify it and what are the results?

No

10. Does the paper replicate the results of previous work? If yes, leave a summary of the findings (confirm/partially confirms/contradicts).

No

11. What success metrics are used?

N/A

12. Write down any other comments/notes here.

N/A