Evaluate :what do we mean by evaluation data?

[Evarln]

Hello,

I am reading the documentation to evaluate the named entity recognition model I trained via Spacy. The order is as follows:
python -m spacy evaluate model data_path

But I don't understand what is meant by evaluation data. To me, the evaluation data is the test data that is annotated by my new model. However, to evaluate, we need a gold standard. So I don't really understand what data to put.

Thanks!!

[polm]

When you prepare annotated examples for your model, you should use some as training data, and hold some out as evaluation / validation / dev data.

Please see the docs or the spaCy course for more details.