Analyzing reviews guided by App descriptions for the software development and 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)?

Pattern. https://www.clips.uantwerpen.be/pages/pattern

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.

Pattern: https://www.clips.uantwerpen.be/pages/pattern

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

Automatically process app reviews to extract user sentiment and opinion from the reviews.

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

Extract sentiment from app reviews.

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

App reviews extracted from the iOS app store for apps in three domains.

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?

Probably yes. However, pattern does not clearly indicate what their sentiment was designed for.

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?

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12. Write down any other comments/notes here.

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