<dd><p>Chunk evaluator is used to evaluate segment labelling accuracy for a
<dd><p>Chunk evaluator is used to evaluate segment labelling accuracy for a
sequence. It calculates the chunk detection F1 score.</p>
sequence. It calculates precision, recall and F1 scores for the chunk detection.</p>
<p>A chunk is correctly detected if its beginning, end and type are correct.
<p>To use chunk evaluator, several concepts need to be clarified firstly.</p>
Other chunk type is ignored.</p>
<ulclass="simple">
<p>For each label in the label sequence, we have:</p>
<li><strong>Chunk type</strong> is the type of the whole chunk and a chunk consists of one or several words. (For example in NER, ORG for organization name, PER for person name etc.)</li>
<dd><p>Chunk evaluator is used to evaluate segment labelling accuracy for a
<dd><p>Chunk evaluator is used to evaluate segment labelling accuracy for a
sequence. It calculates the chunk detection F1 score.</p>
sequence. It calculates precision, recall and F1 scores for the chunk detection.</p>
<p>A chunk is correctly detected if its beginning, end and type are correct.
<p>To use chunk evaluator, several concepts need to be clarified firstly.</p>
Other chunk type is ignored.</p>
<ulclass="simple">
<p>For each label in the label sequence, we have:</p>
<li><strong>Chunk type</strong> is the type of the whole chunk and a chunk consists of one or several words. (For example in NER, ORG for organization name, PER for person name etc.)</li>