# Reference

Conceptual and API reference for spaneval. For a hands-on introduction, start with `examples/quickstart.py`.

| Document | Content |
|---|---|
| [Matching](matching.md) | How true and predicted entities are paired before scoring |
| [Entity-count strategies](entity_count.md) | Strict, Exact, Partial, AnyOverlap, Contains, ProportionalCoverage, MinimumOverlap |
| [Character-count strategies](character_count.md) | TextCoverage |
| [Results and reporting](results.md) | report(), report_goals(), score(), metrics(), diagnostic helpers |
