Jury is a comprehensive toolkit for evaluating Natural Language Processing (NLP) experiments offering various automated metrics. It provides a smooth and easy-to-use interface.

What is Jury?

Jury is designed to facilitate the evaluation of NLP projects by using an advanced interface for calculating various metrics simultaneously and efficiently. Its support for multiple predictions and references means you can evaluate your models’ performances across different types of outputs, enhancing the process of model evaluation.

Installation

To install Jury, you can easily do it through pip or build it from source. Here’s how:

• Using pip:

  pip install jury

• Building from source:

  git clone https://github.com/obss/jury.git
  cd jury
  python setup.py install

Note: If you are on Windows, you might face issues related to the sacrebleu package. In such cases, it’s advisable to use the conda package manager:

conda install pywin32

Basic Usage

Using Jury to evaluate generated outputs is straightforward and requires only two lines of code:

from jury import Jury
scorer = Jury()

Here’s how to implement it:

• Define your predictions and references:

predictions = [["the cat is on the mat", "There is a cat playing on the mat"], ["Look!", "a wonderful day."]]
references = [["the cat is playing on the mat.", "The cat plays on the mat."], ["Today is a wonderful day", "The weather outside is wonderful."]]

• Calculate scores:

scores = scorer(predictions=predictions, references=references)

Understanding the Code: An Analogy

Think of your NLP project as a cooking contest. Each dish (prediction) has to be compared with different judges (references) on specific criteria: taste, presentation, and creativity. Jury acts like a professional judging panel, providing detailed feedback on each dish based on various metrics. Instead of sending each dish one by one to each judge, you submit all dishes at once, allowing the judges to assess and provide scores for multiple criteria efficiently – hence, the concurrent evaluation support.

Available Metrics

Jury supports a variety of evaluation metrics including:

• Accuracy
• Bartscore
• Bleu
• Precision
• Recall
• And many others!

To see which metrics are supported and how, you can refer to the official documentation on the evaluate package.

Troubleshooting

If you run into any issues, here are a few troubleshooting steps:

• Ensure that you have all package dependencies installed by following the installation instructions correctly.
• If you’re encountering issues with metrics on Windows, make sure you have the correct version of pywin32 installed through conda as mentioned earlier.
• For specific bugs, check out the GitHub Issues page and see if your issue has already been reported.

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Conclusion

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