Dear Isabel,
Could you please tell us what is the format of the gold standard dataset?
I downloaded the latest evaluation script for the task 9.2 and ran it as per the instructions mentioned in the readme file. I tested on the annotated xml files which are provided as the training data. I got the following output:
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Gold standard saved in goldNER.txt
Gold loaded. Sentences=0, entities: 0
task9.2-FBK-irst-1 created...
task9.2-FBK-irst-1 does not follow the convention file name for the task!
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Best,
Faisal