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Summary

Closes #56 - Implements comprehensive evaluation framework for lemmatization strategy comparison with automated CI regression testing.

Changes

📊 Gold-Standard Test Set (109 cases)

Expanded from initial 73 to 109 hand-curated test pairs covering:

  • Nouns: plural, cases, possessives (ev → evler, kitabı, evim)
  • Verbs: present/past/future + NEW: conditional, imperative, participles
  • Pronouns: personal with cases
  • NEW: Proper nouns with apostrophes (Ahmet'in, İstanbul'da)
  • NEW: Compound words (görebildim, yapabiliyorum)
  • NEW: Adjective-to-noun derivations (güzellik, zenginlik)
  • Edge cases: protection rules, unknown words

🔧 Evaluation Script

  • scripts/evaluate_lemmatizer.py - Full-featured CLI tool
  • Metrics: accuracy, correct/incorrect counts, detailed error analysis
  • Single strategy or compare-all mode
  • Baseline storage + regression detection
  • Pretty-printed comparison tables

📈 Updated Baseline Results (v0.4.0)

Strategy Accuracy Use Case
lookup 68.8% Formal text (news, official docs)
heuristic 18.3% OOV-heavy (social media, slang)
hybrid 69.7% Balanced (default, recommended)

Note: Lower accuracy vs. initial 73-case set reflects more challenging/realistic test coverage (conditional forms, compounds, apostrophes).

🤖 CI Integration (NEW)

  • ✅ Added Evaluate Lemmatizer Quality step to .github/workflows/tests.yml
  • ✅ Runs on Python 3.11 after unit tests
  • Fails build if accuracy drops >5% from baseline
  • ✅ Baseline stored in benchmarks/lemmatization_baseline.json

📝 Documentation (NEW)

  • ✅ Added "Choosing a Lemmatization Strategy" section to docs/BEST_PRACTICES.md
  • ✅ Includes accuracy benchmarks, usage guidelines, strategy selection criteria
  • ✅ Links to evaluation README for custom test sets

Usage

# Compare all strategies
python scripts/evaluate_lemmatizer.py --all

# Save baseline (already done)
python scripts/evaluate_lemmatizer.py --all --save-baseline

# Check for regressions (CI-ready)
python scripts/evaluate_lemmatizer.py --all --check-regression

# Show detailed errors
python scripts/evaluate_lemmatizer.py --all --show-errors

Testing Results

All strategies evaluated successfully on 109 test cases:

  • Lookup: 68.8% accuracy (75/109)
  • Heuristic: 18.3% accuracy (20/109)
  • Hybrid: 69.7% accuracy (76/109)

Baseline updated in benchmarks/lemmatization_baseline.json for CI regression detection.

Success Criteria (from #56)

  • ✅ At least 100 hand-curated test pairs (109 delivered)
  • ✅ Evaluation script outputs metrics (accuracy + error analysis)
  • ✅ Baseline metrics stored in repo (benchmarks/lemmatization_baseline.json)
  • ✅ CI job for regression detection (fails if >5% drop)
  • ✅ Documentation with strategy comparison (BEST_PRACTICES.md)

All requirements from issue #56 now complete. 🎉

Future Work (from #56)

  • Add domain-specific test sets (news, social media, literature)
  • Expand to 200+ test cases for even better coverage
  • Add morphological feature annotations (POS tags, case markers)
  • Cross-validate against TRMorph gold standard
  • Add inter-annotator agreement metrics for manual curation

Related Issues


Ready for merge! 🚀 This PR delivers complete evaluation infrastructure for quality assurance and informed strategy selection.

- Add gold-standard test set with 73 Turkish word-lemma pairs
- Create evaluate_lemmatizer.py script for strategy comparison
- Implement baseline storage for regression detection
- Achieve 97.3% accuracy with lookup/hybrid strategies
- Add comprehensive evaluation documentation

Resolves #56
- Expand gold_standard.tsv to 109 test cases (100+ requirement met)
  - Add conditional tense, imperatives, participles
  - Add proper nouns with apostrophes
  - Add compound words and complex suffix chains
  - Add adjective-to-noun derivations

- Update baseline metrics (lookup: 68.8%, hybrid: 69.7%, heuristic: 18.3%)
  - Lower accuracy reflects more challenging test set
  - Better represents real-world lemmatization complexity

- Add CI regression testing to .github/workflows/tests.yml
  - Fails build if accuracy drops >5% from baseline
  - Runs on Python 3.11 after unit tests

- Document strategy selection in BEST_PRACTICES.md
  - Add comparison table with accuracy benchmarks
  - Provide usage guidelines for each strategy
  - Include custom dataset evaluation instructions

All success criteria from issue #56 now met:
✅ 100+ hand-curated test pairs
✅ Evaluation script with metrics
✅ Baseline metrics stored
✅ CI job for regression detection
✅ Strategy comparison documentation
- Split long lines to comply with 88 char limit
- Extract variables to improve readability
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[Enhancement] Add Lemmatization Evaluation Framework for Strategy Comparison

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