spaCy NLP Library Overview: Features, Speed, and More
1. spaCy to the rescue
or why NLTK is not cool anymore
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What is spaCy
• Natural language processing library
• Industrial strength - based on latest research
• Fast - written using Cython
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Usage
import spacy
nlp = spacy.load(‘en')
doc = nlp(
‘Hello, world.’
‘Here are two sentences.’
)
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Other features
• Part-of-Speech tagger
• Named entities recognition
• Integer IDs for words
• Multi-threading support
• Deep learning
• German, English, French (so far)
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Thanks!
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