Command Line Tool

The pygamma-agreement CLI enables you to compute the gamma inter-annotator agreement without having to use our library’s Python API. For now, and to keep its usage as simple as possible, it only supports the Combined Categorical Dissimilarity.

To use the command line tool, make sure you’ve installed the pygamma-agreement package via pip. You can check that the CLI tool is properly installed in your environment by running

pygamma-agreement -h

Supported data formats

Pygamma-agreement’s CLI takes CSV or RTTM files as input. CSV files need to have the following structure:

annotator, annotation, segment_start, segment_end

Thus, for instance:

annotator_1, Marvin, 11.3, 15.6
annotator_1, Maureen, 20, 25.7
annotator_2, Marvin, 10, 26.3
annotator_C, Marvin, 12.3, 14

Using the command line tool

pygamma-agreement’s command line can be used on one or more files, or a folder containing several files. Thus, all these commands will work:

pygamma-agreement data/my_annotation_file.csv
pygamma-agreement data/annotation_1.csv data/annotation_2.csv
pygamma-agreement data/*.csv
pygamma-agreement data/

The gamma value for each file will be printed out in the console’s stdout. If you wish to easily save the tool’s output in a file, you can use the --output-csv (or -o) option to save it to a CSV that will contain each file’s gamma value. You can then visualize the results with tools like tabview or other spreadsheet software alike.

pygamma-agreement data/*.csv --output-csv gamma_results.csv
pygamma-agreement data/*.csv -o gamma_results.csv

There is also the option of saving the values in the JSON format with the --output-json (or -j) option.

pygamma-agreement data/*.csv --output-json gamma_results.json
pygamma-agreement data/*.csv -j gamma_results.json

Optionally, you can also configure the alpha and beta coefficients used in the combined categorical dissimilarity. You can also set a different precision level if you want your gamma’s estimation to be more or less precise:

pygamma-agreement data/my_annotation_file.csv --alpha 3 --beta 1 --precision-level 0.02

In addition the gamma agreement, pygamma-agreement also gives you the option to output the gamma-cat & gamma-k(s) alternate inter-annotator agreements, with the --gamma-cat (or -g) and --gamma-k (or -k) options, or both.

pygamma-agreement -k -g tests/data/*.csv -o test.csv
OR
pygamma-agreement -k -g tests/data/*.csv -j test.csv