Another Most Influential Paper Award for the Department!

15 August 2024, by Carina Volkmer

Photo: UHH/Walid Maalej

For the second year in a row, Prof. Dr. Walid Maalej (Applied Software Technology (MAST)) received the Most Influential Paper Award (MIP) at the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE ’24).

The Most Influential Paper is one of the most important awards for researchers and is usually awarded to a paper published at ten years ago and which has had the biggest impact in a research community (in term of citations, follow-up projects, industry relevance, tools etc.).

Last year’s award winning paper “User Feedback in the AppStore: An Empirical Study” was co-authored by Dr. Dennis Pagano (CQSE, United States, then with TU München). The paper has effectively led to an entire new research field on user feedback analytics. This year Prof. Maalej and Emitzá Guzmán Ortega (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) won the award for their paper “How Do Users Like This Feature? A Fine Grained Sentiment Analysis of App Review”, which was among the first to use Opinion Mining and modern Natural Language Processing for Software and Requirements Engineering.

In total, this is the third MIP award for Prof. Maalej. In 2020 he also won a MIP at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mining Software Repositories.