pyter

pyter is a simple Translation Error Rate evaluation command.

Currentry under development state.

Installation

pip install pyter

or checkout the repository:

git clone git://github.com/aflc/pyter.git
cd pyter
pip install -e .

Usage

In Python code(Python2.x case)

import

>>> import pyter

To get a TER score, both hypothesis sentence and reference sentence have to a list of word.

>>> ref = u'SAUDI ARABIA denied THIS WEEK information published in the AMERICAN new york times'.split()
>>> hyp = u'THIS WEEK THE SAUDIS denied information published in the new york times'.split()
>>> '%.3f' % pyter.ter(hyp, ref)
'0.308'

If you want to use a character based matching, write a code like that.

>>> ref = list(u"Pythonは、より素早く、効果的にシステムとの統合が可能なプログラミング言語です。")
>>> hyp = list(u"Pythonは、より迅速に動作するとより効果的にシステムを統合できるプログラミング言語です。")
>>> '%.3f' % pyter.ter(hyp, ref)
'0.357'

Command line interface

Please type:

pyter --help

ReleaseNote

v0.2.2.1

• bugfix release

v0.2.2

• fixed #1, invalid scoreing.

v0.2.1

• New CLI interface
• Refactoring the whole code
• This version is incompatible with the previous version.

v0.2

• Replace normal DP based edit distance with cached version. A little performance improvement.

v0.1.1

• Minor fix, and register to PyPi

v0.1

• Initial release

License

It is released under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2011 Hiroyuki Tanaka

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