agreement-phi 0.1.6

Inter-rater agreement Phi, as an alternative to Kripperndorfs alpha, as described in https://github.com/AlessandroChecco/agreement-phi

Agreement measure Phi

Source code for inter-rater agreement measure Phi. Live demo here: http://agreement-measure.sheffield.ac.uk

Requirements

python 3+, pymc3 3.3+. See requirements files for tested working versions on linux and osx.

Example

Input is a numpy 2-dimensional array with NaN for missing values, or equivalently a python list of lists (where each list is a set of ratings for a document, with arbitrary length). Every row represents a different document, every column a different rating. Note that Phi does not take in account rater bias, so the order in which ratings appear for each document does not matter. For this reasons, missing values and a sparse representation is needed only when documents have different number of ratings.

Input example

import numpy as np
m_random = np.random.randint(5, size=(5, 10)).tolist()
m_random[0][1]=np.nan

or equivalently

m_random = np.random.randint(5, size=(5, 10)).astype(float)
m_random[0][1]=np.nan

Running the measure inference

import phi
phi.run_phi(data=m_random,limits=[0,4],keep_missing=True,fast=True,njobs=4,verbose=False,table=False,N=500)

• data [non optional] is the matrix or list of lists of input.

OPTIONAL PARAMETERS:

• limits defines the scale [automatically inferred by default]. It's a list with the minimum and maximum (included) of the scale.
• keep_missing [automatically inferred by default based on number of NaNs] boolean. If you have many NaNs you might want to switch to False,
• fast [default True] boolean. Whether to use or not the fast inferential technique.
• N [default 1000] integer. Number of iterations. Increase it if convergence_test is False.
• verbose [default False] boolean. If True it shows more information
• table [default False] boolean. If True more verbose output in form of a table.
• njobs [default 1] integer. Number of parallel jobs. Set it equal to the number of CPUs available.

Note that the code will try to infer the limits of the scale, but it's highly suggested to include them (in case some elements on the boundary are missing). For this example the parameter limits would be limits=[0,4].

Note that keep_missing will be automatically inferred, but for highly inbalanced datasets (per document number of ratings distribution) it can be overriden by manually setting this option.

Output example

{'agreement': 0.023088447111559884, 'computation_time': 58.108173847198486, 'convergence_test': True, 'interval': array([-0.03132854,  0.06889001])}

Where 'interval' represents the 95% Highest Posterior Density interval. If convergence_test is False we recommend to increase N.

References

If you use it for academic publications, please cite out paper:

Checco, A., Roitero, A., Maddalena, E., Mizzaro, S., & Demartini, G. (2017). Let’s Agree to Disagree: Fixing Agreement Measures for Crowdsourcing. In Proceedings of the Fifth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP-17) (pp. 11-20). AAAI Press.

@inproceedings{checco2017let,
  title={Let’s Agree to Disagree: Fixing Agreement Measures for Crowdsourcing},
  author={Checco, A and Roitero, A and Maddalena, E and Mizzaro, S and Demartini, G},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP-17)},
  pages={11--20},
  year={2017},
  organization={AAAI Press}
}