pyrouge is a python wrapper for the original perl script. TO use it, you need do the following steps:
1. Get the tools/ROUGE-1.5.5
git clone https://github.com/andersjo/pyrouge.git
2. Install pyrouge package
either
pip install pyrouge
or install from local
https://github.com/bheinzerling/pyrouge.git
3. Set path to ROUGE-1.5.5 (the git folder in step 1)
pyrouge_set_rouge_path /absolute/path/to/ROUGE-1.5.5/
4. Possible errors
Cannot open exception db file for reading: data/WordNet-2.0.exc.db
You can run the following:
cd /home/yzhao/soft/ROUGE-1.5.5/RELEASE-1.5.5/data
rm WordNet-2.0.exc.db
./WordNet-2.0-Exceptions/buildExeptionDB.pl ./WordNet-2.0-Exceptions ./smart_common_words.txt ./WordNet-2.0
Illegal division by zero at ./ROUGE-1.5.5.pl line 2450.
That could be the txt contains tokens not allowed such as "<", "<unk>".
