Who answers it better? an in-depth analysis of chatgpt and stack overflow answers to software engineering questions

S Kabir, DN Udo-Imeh, B Kou, T Zhang - CoRR, 2023 - openreview.net
Q&A platforms have been crucial for the online help-seeking behavior of programmers.
However, the recent popularity of ChatGPT is altering this trend. Despite this popularity, no …

Is stack overflow obsolete? an empirical study of the characteristics of chatgpt answers to stack overflow questions

S Kabir, DN Udo-Imeh, B Kou, T Zhang - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Q&A platforms have been crucial for the online help-seeking behavior of programmers.
However, the recent popularity of ChatGPT is altering this trend. Despite this popularity, no …

A disruptive research playbook for studying disruptive innovations

MA Storey, D Russo, N Novielli, T Kobayashi… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
As researchers today, we are witnessing a fundamental change in our technologically-
enabled world due to the advent and diffusion of highly disruptive technologies such as …

A benchmark study on sentiment analysis for software engineering research

N Novielli, D Girardi, F Lanubile - Proceedings of the 15th International …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
A recent research trend has emerged to identify developers' emotions, by applying
sentiment analysis to the content of communication traces left in collaborative development …

Can we use se-specific sentiment analysis tools in a cross-platform setting?

N Novielli, F Calefato, D Dongiovanni… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we address the problem of using sentiment analysis tools' off-the-shelf', that is
when a gold standard is not available for retraining. We evaluate the performance of four SE …

GitHub Discussions: An exploratory study of early adoption

H Hata, N Novielli, S Baltes, RG Kula… - Empirical Software …, 2022 - Springer
Discussions is a new feature of GitHub for asking questions or discussing topics outside of
specific Issues or Pull Requests. Before being available to all projects in December 2020, it …

The behavior of blockchain ventures on Twitter as a determinant for funding success

S Albrecht, B Lutz, D Neumann - Electronic Markets, 2020 - Springer
Blockchain ventures rely on a distributed funding instrument called initial coin offering (ICO).
Since ICOs are not regulated, potential investors face information asymmetries and decision …

Benefitting from the grey literature in software engineering research

V Garousi, M Felderer, MV Mäntylä… - … Empirical Methods in …, 2020 - Springer
Researchers generally place the most trust in peer-reviewed, published information, such as
journals and conference papers. By contrast, software engineering (SE) practitioners …

Generating question titles for stack overflow from mined code snippets

Z Gao, X **a, J Grundy, D Lo, YF Li - ACM Transactions on Software …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Stack Overflow has been heavily used by software developers as a popular way to seek
programming-related information from peers via the internet. The Stack Overflow community …

A gold standard for emotion annotation in stack overflow

N Novielli, F Calefato, F Lanubile - Proceedings of the 15th international …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
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 …