Sentiment analysis for software engineering: How far can zero-shot learning (ZSL) go?

ArXi:2604.13826v1 Announce Type: cross Sentiment analysis in software engineering focuses on understanding emotions expressed in software artifacts. Previous research highlighted the limitations of applying general off-the-shelf sentiment analysis tools within the software engineering domain and indicated the need for specialized tools tailored to various software engineering contexts. The development of such tools heavily relies on supervised machine learning techniques that necessitate annotated datasets.