Calling the CoNLL03evaluation script fails silently with low RAM (with workaround)

[polynoman]

When there is not enough RAM available, calling the evaluation script will fail. In my case, a notebook with 8GB RAM and 2 GB Swap is not enough.

It will then produce a message like this (with another timestamp):

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: './data/run/03co_01311428_score'

The workaround is to increase the size of the swap. For me, 8GB additional swap was sufficient. Here is a way to increase swapsize: Click