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  1. Self-monitoring of Developers’ Emotions: the Case of Agile Retrospective Meetings

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, September 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nicole Novielli, Daniela Grassi

  2. Continuous Quality Improvement of AI-based Systems: the QualAI Project

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Giuseppe Colavito, Nicole Novielli, Prof. Dr. Fabio Calefato

  3. A Disruptive Research Playbook for Studying Disruptive Innovations

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nicole Novielli

  4. Surfing the AI Wave in Software Engineering: Opportunities and Challenges

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nicole Novielli

  5. Communicating Study Design Trade-offs in Software Engineering

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nicole Novielli

  6. Leveraging GPT-like LLMs to Automate Issue Labeling

    Article • April 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nicole Novielli, Giuseppe Colavito

  7. Using Voice and Biofeedback to Predict User Engagement during Product Feedback Interviews

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nicole Novielli, Davide Fucci

  8. Towards Supporting Emotion Awareness in Retrospective Meetings

    Article • May 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicole Novielli, Daniela Grassi

  9. Opinion Mining for Software Development: A Systematic Literature Review

    Article • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nathan Cassee, Nicole Novielli

  10. Issue report classification using pre-trained language models

    Article • May 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nicole Novielli

  11. Can We Use SE-specific Sentiment Analysis Tools in a Cross-Platform Setting?

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nicole Novielli, Prof. Dr. Fabio Calefato

  12. Recognizing developers' emotions while programming

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nicole Novielli, Davide Fucci

  13. Love, Joy, Anger, Sadness, Fear, and Surprise: SE Needs Special Kinds of AI: A Case Study on Text Mining and SE

    Article • IEEE Software, May 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicole Novielli

  14. ArguLens: Anatomy of Community Opinions On Usability Issues Using Argumentation Models

    Article • April 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nicole Novielli

  15. Sentiment and Emotion in Software Engineering

    Article • IEEE Software, September 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicole Novielli

  16. A benchmark study on sentiment analysis for software engineering research

    Article • May 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nicole Novielli

  17. A gold standard for emotion annotation in stack overflow

    Article • May 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nicole Novielli, Prof. Dr. Fabio Calefato

  18. Sentiment polarity detection for software development

    Article • May 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof. Dr. Fabio Calefato, Nicole Novielli

  19. Mining Communication Data in a Music Community: A Preliminary Analysis

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicole Novielli

  20. Sentiment Polarity Detection for Software Development

    Article • Empirical Software Engineering, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicole Novielli

  21. The EmoQuest Project

    Article • June 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nicole Novielli, Prof Giuseppe Mininni

  22. Recognizing signals of social attitude in interacting with Ambient Conversational Systems

    Article • Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicole Novielli

  23. Towards discovering the role of emotions in stack overflow

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nicole Novielli

  24. The Role of Affect Analysis in Dialogue Act Identification

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicole Novielli

  25. A Preliminary Investigation of the Effect of Social Media on Affective Trust in Customer-Supplier Relationships

    Article • September 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicole Novielli

  26. Social Network Analysis for Global Software Engineering: Exploring Developer Relationships from a Fine-Grained Perspective

    Article • August 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicole Novielli

  27. User Modeling in Social Interaction with a Caring Agent

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicole Novielli

  28. Towards a Model for Recognising the Social Attitude in Natural Interaction with Embodied Agents

    Article • July 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicole Novielli

  29. Recognizing the User Social Attitude in Multimodal Interaction in Smart Environments

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicole Novielli

  30. Dialogue Act Classification Exploiting Lexical Semantics

    Article • January 2011, IGI Global

    Nicole Novielli

  31. User attitude towards an embodied conversational agent: Effects of the interaction mode

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, September 2010, Elsevier

    Nicole Novielli

  32. Enhancing Conversational Access to Information through a Socially Intelligent Agent

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicole Novielli

  33. Social robots and ECAs for accessing smart environments services

    Article • January 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nicole Novielli

  34. HMM modeling of user engagement in advice-giving dialogues

    Article • Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, December 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicole Novielli

  35. Are ECAs More Persuasive than Textual Messages?

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicole Novielli

  36. Affective Information Processing

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicole Novielli

  37. Generating comparative descriptions of places of interest in the tourism domain

    Article • January 2009, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nicole Novielli

  38. NICA: Natural Interaction with a Caring Agent

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicole Novielli

  39. User modeling and adaptation in health promotion dialogs with an animated character

    Article • Journal of Biomedical Informatics, October 2006, Elsevier

    Nicole Novielli

  40. Social Attitude Towards A Conversational Character

    Article • September 2006, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Nicole Novielli

  41. Dynamic User Modeling in Health Promotion Dialogs

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicole Novielli

  42. Cognitive Emotion Modeling in Natural Language Communication

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Nicole Novielli