SignX/eval/mscoco_rouge.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
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# File Name : mscoco_rouge.py
#
# Description : Computes ROUGE-L metric as described by Lin and Hovey (2004)
#
# Creation Date : 2015-01-07 06:03
# Author : Ramakrishna Vedantam <vrama91@vt.edu>


def my_lcs(string, sub):
    """
    Calculates longest common subsequence for a pair of tokenized strings
    :param string : list of str : tokens from a string split using whitespace
    :param sub : list of str : shorter string, also split using whitespace
    :returns: length (list of int): length of the longest common subsequence between the two strings

    Note: my_lcs only gives length of the longest common subsequence, not the actual LCS
    """
    if len(string) < len(sub):
        sub, string = string, sub

    lengths = [[0 for i in range(0, len(sub) + 1)] for j in range(0, len(string) + 1)]

    for j in range(1, len(sub) + 1):
        for i in range(1, len(string) + 1):
            if string[i - 1] == sub[j - 1]:
                lengths[i][j] = lengths[i - 1][j - 1] + 1
            else:
                lengths[i][j] = max(lengths[i - 1][j], lengths[i][j - 1])

    return lengths[len(string)][len(sub)]


def calc_score(hypotheses, references, beta=1.2):
    """
    Compute ROUGE-L score given one candidate and references for an image
    :param hypotheses: str : candidate sentence to be evaluated
    :param references: list of str : COCO reference sentences for the particular image to be evaluated
    :returns score: int (ROUGE-L score for the candidate evaluated against references)
    """
    assert len(hypotheses) == 1
    assert len(references) > 0
    prec = []
    rec = []

    # split into tokens
    token_c = hypotheses[0].split(" ")

    for reference in references:
        # split into tokens
        token_r = reference.split(" ")
        # compute the longest common subsequence
        lcs = my_lcs(token_r, token_c)
        prec.append(lcs / float(len(token_c)))
        rec.append(lcs / float(len(token_r)))

    prec_max = max(prec)
    rec_max = max(rec)

    if prec_max != 0 and rec_max != 0:
        score = ((1 + beta ** 2) * prec_max * rec_max) / float(
            rec_max + beta ** 2 * prec_max
        )
    else:
        score = 0.0
    return score