xer.py

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"""

# pip install git+https://github.com/pzelasko/kaldialign.git

from kaldialign import edit_distance


def cer(ref, hyp):
    """
    Computes the Character Error Rate, defined as the edit distance.

    Arguments:
        ref (string): a space-separated ground truth string
        hyp (string): a space-separated hypothesis
    """
    ref, hyp, = ref.replace(' ', '').strip(), hyp.replace(' ', '').strip()
    info = edit_distance(ref, hyp)
    distance = info['total']
    ref_length = float(len(ref))
    
    data = {
                'insertions': info['ins'],
                'deletions': info['del'],
                'substitutions': info['sub'],
                'distance': distance,
                'ref_length': ref_length,
                'Error Rate': (distance / ref_length) * 100
           }
    
    return data


def wer(ref, hyp):
    """
    Computes the Word Error Rate, defined as the edit distance between the
    two provided sentences after tokenizing to words.
    Arguments:
        ref (string): a space-separated ground truth string
        hyp (string): a space-separated hypothesis
    """
    
    # build mapping of words to integers
    b = set(ref.split() + hyp.split())
    word2char = dict(zip(b, range(len(b))))
    
    # map the words to a char array (Levenshtein packages only accepts strings)
    w1 = [chr(word2char[w]) for w in ref.split()]
    w2 = [chr(word2char[w]) for w in hyp.split()]
    
    info = edit_distance(''.join(w1), ''.join(w2))
    distance = info['total']
    ref_length = float(len(w1))
    
    data = {
                'insertions': info['ins'],
                'deletions': info['del'],
                'substitutions': info['sub'],
                'distance': distance,
                'ref_length': ref_length,
                'Error Rate': (distance / ref_length) * 100
           }
    
    return data