[jira] Commented: (OPENNLP-59) Bad precision using FMeasure

["Jörn Kottmann (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jörn Kottmann commented on OPENNLP-59:
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William, is the work on this issue done? I reviewed your changes and everything looks really nice.
Since you opened the issue, it should be you who closes it. Thanks for fixing this.

> Bad precision using FMeasure
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>
>                 Key: OPENNLP-59
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENNLP-59
>             Project: OpenNLP
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: tools-1.5.1-incubating
>            Reporter: William Colen
>            Assignee: William Colen
>             Fix For: tools-1.5.1-incubating
>
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> I noticed bad precision in FMeasure results. I think the issue is that the current implementation is summing divisions. It computes the precision and recall for every sample, and after adds the results for each sample to compute the overall result. By doing that, the error related to each division are summed and can impact the final result.
> I found the problem while implementing the ChunkerEvaluator. To verify the evaluator I tried to compare the results we get using OpenNLP and the Perl script conlleval available at http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll2000/chunking/output.html. The results were always different if I process more than one sentence, because the implementation was using FMeasure.updateScores() that was summing divisions.
> To solve that and have the same results provided by conll I basically stopped using the Mean class.

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