bert-score 0.1.0

PyTorch implementation of BERT score

BERTScore

Automatic Evaluation Metric described in the paper BERTScore: Evaluating Text Generation with BERT.

Authors:

• Tianyi Zhang*
• Varsha Kishore
• Felix Wu*
• Kilian Q. Weinberger
• Yoav Artzi

*: Equal Contribution

Overview

BERTScore leverages the pre-trained contextual embeddings from BERT and matches words in candidate and reference sentences by cosine similarity. It has been shown to correlate with human judgment on setence-level and system-level evaluation. Moreover, BERTScore computes precision, recall, and F1 measure, which can be useful for evaluating different language generation tasks.

For an illustration, BERTScore precision can be computed as

If you find this repo useful, please cite:

@article{bert-score,
  title={BERTScore: Evaluating Text Generation with BERT},
  author={Zhang, Tianyi and Kishore, Varsha and Wu, Felix and Weinberger, Kilian Q. and Artzi, Yoav.},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.09675},
  year={2019}
}

Installation

Install requiremnts by pip install -r requiremnts.txt

Install it from the source by:

git clone https://github.com/Tiiiger/bert_score
cd bert_score
pip install .

Usage

Metric

We provide a command line interface(CLI) of BERTScore as well as a python module. For the CLI, you can use it as follows:

1. To evaluate English text files:

We provide example inputs under ./example.

bert-score -r example/refs.txt -c example/hyps.txt --bert bert-base-uncased 

2. To evaluate Chinese text files:

Please format your input files similar to the ones in ./example.

bert-score -r [references] -c [candidates] --bert bert-base-chinese

3. To evaluate text files in other languages:

Please format your input files similar to the ones in ./example.

bert-score -r [references] -c [candidates]

See more options by bert-score -h.

For the python module, please refer to cli/score.py.

Acknowledgement

This repo wouldn't be possible without the awesome bert and pytorch-pretrained-BERT.