This is a native python implementation of ROUGE, designed to replicate results from the original perl package.
ROUGE was originally introduced in the paper:
Lin, Chin-Yew. ROUGE: a Package for Automatic Evaluation of Summaries. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Text Summarization Branches Out (WAS 2004), Barcelona, Spain, July 25 - 26, 2004.
There are ROUGE implementations available for Python, however some are not native python due to their dependency on the perl script, and others provide differing results when compared with the original implementation. This makes it difficult to directly compare with known results.
This package is designed to replicate perl results. It implements:
- ROUGE-N (N-gram) scoring
- ROUGE-L (Longest Common Subsequence) scoring
- Text normalization
- Bootstrap resampling for confidence interval calculation
- Optional Porter stemming to remove plurals and word suffixes such as (ing, ion, ment).
Note that not all options provided by the original perl ROUGE script are supported, but the subset of options that are implemented should replicate the original functionality.
The original ROUGE perl script implemented optional stopword removal (using the -s parameter). However, there were ~600 stopwords used by ROUGE, borrowed from another now defunct package. This word list contained many words that may not be suited to some tasks, such as day and month names and numbers. It also has no clear license for redistribution. Since we are unable to replicate this functionality precisely we do not include stopword removal.
This package compares target files (containing one example per line) with prediction files in the same format. It can be launched as follows (from google-research/):
python -m rouge.rouge \
--target_filepattern=*.targets \
--prediction_filepattern=*.decodes \
--output_filename=scores.csv \
--use_stemmer=trueLicensed under the Apache 2.0 License.
This is not an official Google product.