# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """This module provides functions to calculate error rate in different level. e.g. wer for word-level, cer for char-level. """ from __future__ import absolute_import from __future__ import division from __future__ import print_function import numpy as np def _levenshtein_distance(ref, hyp): """Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences. Informally, the levenshtein disctance is defined as the minimum number of single-character edits (substitutions, insertions or deletions) required to change one word into the other. We can naturally extend the edits to word level when calculate levenshtein disctance for two sentences. """ m = len(ref) n = len(hyp) # special case if ref == hyp: return 0 if m == 0: return n if n == 0: return m if m < n: ref, hyp = hyp, ref m, n = n, m # use O(min(m, n)) space distance = np.zeros((2, n + 1), dtype=np.int32) # initialize distance matrix for j in xrange(n + 1): distance[0][j] = j # calculate levenshtein distance for i in xrange(1, m + 1): prev_row_idx = (i - 1) % 2 cur_row_idx = i % 2 distance[cur_row_idx][0] = i for j in xrange(1, n + 1): if ref[i - 1] == hyp[j - 1]: distance[cur_row_idx][j] = distance[prev_row_idx][j - 1] else: s_num = distance[prev_row_idx][j - 1] + 1 i_num = distance[cur_row_idx][j - 1] + 1 d_num = distance[prev_row_idx][j] + 1 distance[cur_row_idx][j] = min(s_num, i_num, d_num) return distance[m % 2][n] def wer(reference, hypothesis, ignore_case=False, delimiter=' '): """Calculate word error rate (WER). WER compares reference text and hypothesis text in word-level. WER is defined as: .. math:: WER = (Sw + Dw + Iw) / Nw where .. code-block:: text Sw is the number of words subsituted, Dw is the number of words deleted, Iw is the number of words inserted, Nw is the number of words in the reference We can use levenshtein distance to calculate WER. Please draw an attention that empty items will be removed when splitting sentences by delimiter. :param reference: The reference sentence. :type reference: basestring :param hypothesis: The hypothesis sentence. :type hypothesis: basestring :param ignore_case: Whether case-sensitive or not. :type ignore_case: bool :param delimiter: Delimiter of input sentences. :type delimiter: char :return: Word error rate. :rtype: float :raises ValueError: If the reference length is zero. """ if ignore_case == True: reference = reference.lower() hypothesis = hypothesis.lower() ref_words = filter(None, reference.split(delimiter)) hyp_words = filter(None, hypothesis.split(delimiter)) if len(ref_words) == 0: raise ValueError("Reference's word number should be greater than 0.") edit_distance = _levenshtein_distance(ref_words, hyp_words) wer = float(edit_distance) / len(ref_words) return wer def cer(reference, hypothesis, ignore_case=False, remove_space=False): """Calculate charactor error rate (CER). CER compares reference text and hypothesis text in char-level. CER is defined as: .. math:: CER = (Sc + Dc + Ic) / Nc where .. code-block:: text Sc is the number of characters substituted, Dc is the number of characters deleted, Ic is the number of characters inserted Nc is the number of characters in the reference We can use levenshtein distance to calculate CER. Chinese input should be encoded to unicode. Please draw an attention that the leading and tailing space characters will be truncated and multiple consecutive space characters in a sentence will be replaced by one space character. :param reference: The reference sentence. :type reference: basestring :param hypothesis: The hypothesis sentence. :type hypothesis: basestring :param ignore_case: Whether case-sensitive or not. :type ignore_case: bool :param remove_space: Whether remove internal space characters :type remove_space: bool :return: Character error rate. :rtype: float :raises ValueError: If the reference length is zero. """ if ignore_case == True: reference = reference.lower() hypothesis = hypothesis.lower() join_char = ' ' if remove_space == True: join_char = '' reference = join_char.join(filter(None, reference.split(' '))) hypothesis = join_char.join(filter(None, hypothesis.split(' '))) if len(reference) == 0: raise ValueError("Length of reference should be greater than 0.") edit_distance = _levenshtein_distance(reference, hypothesis) cer = float(edit_distance) / len(reference) return cer