Sentiment analysis is important in software engineering for understanding developer interactions, issue resolutions, and project dynamics.
Traditional sentiment analysis tools in software engineering often struggle with the nuanced language specific to the domain.
A study compared the performance of bidirectional transformers like BERT to generative pre-trained transformers, specifically GPT-40-mini, in sentiment analysis.
The study found that while fine-tuned GPT-40-mini performed comparably to BERT on GitHub and Jira datasets, it showed superior generalization on linguistically complex datasets like Stack Overflow.