A Gold Standard 4,800 questions, answers, and comments from Stack Overflow, manually annotated for emotions.

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

N. Novielli, F. Calefato, F. Lanubile. 2018. A Gold Standard For Emotion Annotation in Stack Overflow. In Proc. Int’l Conf. on Mining Software Repositories (MSR’18), Gothenburg, Sweden, May 28-29, 2018, DOI: 10.1145/3196398.3196453.

The dataset has been used for developing a toolkit for emotion detection from technical text: https://github.com/collab-uniba/Emotion_and_Polarity_SO