Noun Phrase chunker evaluation tool for spaCy

This evaluation tool uses CoNLL 2000 Shared task of Chunking - https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W00-0726.pdf and https://www.clips.uantwerpen.be/conll2000/chunking/ to evaluate the Noun Phrase chunking capabiilities of spaCy.

How does it work?

CoNLL datatset uses BIO format which has been converted to a list of Noun Phrase chunks.
Similarly, the output of spaCy's "noun_chunks" has also been converted to a list of Noun Phrase chunks.
A F1 score calculation has been carried out for the same, results are as follows.

Results

Precision: 92.41
Recall: 80.84
F-Score: 86.25

Extending it?

Any of the modern Noun phrase chunkers can be evaluated with simple modifications to the script.