PaddleSpeech/error_rate.py

# -*- 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