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Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Python and Cython

Project description

spaCy is a library for advanced Natural Language Processing in Python and Cython. It’s built on the very latest research, and was designed from day one to be used in real products. spaCy comes with pre-trained statistical models and word vectors, and currently supports tokenization for 30+ languages. It features the fastest syntactic parser in the world, convolutional neural network models for tagging, parsing and named entity recognition and easy deep learning integration. It’s commercial open-source software, released under the MIT license.

💫 Version 2.0 out now! Check out the new features here.

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📖 Documentation

spaCy 101

New to spaCy? Here’s everything you need to know!

Usage Guides

How to use spaCy and its features.

New in v2.0

New features, backwards incompatibilities and migration guide.

API Reference

The detailed reference for spaCy’s API.

Models

Download statistical language models for spaCy.

Universe

Libraries, extensions, demos, books and courses.

Changelog

Changes and version history.

Contribute

How to contribute to the spaCy project and code base.

💬 Where to ask questions

The spaCy project is maintained by @honnibal and @ines. Please understand that we won’t be able to provide individual support via email. We also believe that help is much more valuable if it’s shared publicly, so that more people can benefit from it.

Bug Reports

GitHub Issue Tracker

Usage Questions

StackOverflow, Gitter Chat, Reddit User Group

General Discussion

Gitter Chat, Reddit User Group

Features

  • Fastest syntactic parser in the world

  • Named entity recognition

  • Non-destructive tokenization

  • Support for 20+ languages

  • Pre-trained statistical models and word vectors

  • Easy deep learning integration

  • Part-of-speech tagging

  • Labelled dependency parsing

  • Syntax-driven sentence segmentation

  • Built in visualizers for syntax and NER

  • Convenient string-to-hash mapping

  • Export to numpy data arrays

  • Efficient binary serialization

  • Easy model packaging and deployment

  • State-of-the-art speed

  • Robust, rigorously evaluated accuracy

📖 For more details, see the facts, figures and benchmarks.

Install spaCy

For detailed installation instructions, see the documentation.

Operating system

macOS / OS X, Linux, Windows (Cygwin, MinGW, Visual Studio)

Python version

CPython 2.7, 3.4+. Only 64 bit.

Package managers

pip, conda (via conda-forge)

pip

Using pip, spaCy releases are available as source packages and binary wheels (as of v2.0.13).

pip install spacy

When using pip it is generally recommended to install packages in a virtual environment to avoid modifying system state:

python -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install spacy

conda

Thanks to our great community, we’ve finally re-added conda support. You can now install spaCy via conda-forge:

conda config --add channels conda-forge
conda install spacy

For the feedstock including the build recipe and configuration, check out this repository. Improvements and pull requests to the recipe and setup are always appreciated.

Updating spaCy

Some updates to spaCy may require downloading new statistical models. If you’re running spaCy v2.0 or higher, you can use the validate command to check if your installed models are compatible and if not, print details on how to update them:

pip install -U spacy
python -m spacy validate

If you’ve trained your own models, keep in mind that your training and runtime inputs must match. After updating spaCy, we recommend retraining your models with the new version.

📖 For details on upgrading from spaCy 1.x to spaCy 2.x, see the migration guide.

Download models

As of v1.7.0, models for spaCy can be installed as Python packages. This means that they’re a component of your application, just like any other module. Models can be installed using spaCy’s download command, or manually by pointing pip to a path or URL.

Available Models

Detailed model descriptions, accuracy figures and benchmarks.

Models Documentation

Detailed usage instructions.

# out-of-the-box: download best-matching default model
python -m spacy download en

# download best-matching version of specific model for your spaCy installation
python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg

# pip install .tar.gz archive from path or URL
pip install /Users/you/en_core_web_sm-2.0.0.tar.gz

If you have SSL certification problems, SSL customization options are described in the help:

# help for the download command python -m spacy download –help

Loading and using models

To load a model, use spacy.load() with the model’s shortcut link:

import spacy
nlp = spacy.load('en')
doc = nlp(u'This is a sentence.')

If you’ve installed a model via pip, you can also import it directly and then call its load() method:

import spacy
import en_core_web_sm

nlp = en_core_web_sm.load()
doc = nlp(u'This is a sentence.')

📖 For more info and examples, check out the models documentation.

Support for older versions

If you’re using an older version (v1.6.0 or below), you can still download and install the old models from within spaCy using python -m spacy.en.download all or python -m spacy.de.download all. The .tar.gz archives are also attached to the v1.6.0 release. To download and install the models manually, unpack the archive, drop the contained directory into spacy/data and load the model via spacy.load('en') or spacy.load('de').

Compile from source

The other way to install spaCy is to clone its GitHub repository and build it from source. That is the common way if you want to make changes to the code base. You’ll need to make sure that you have a development environment consisting of a Python distribution including header files, a compiler, pip, virtualenv and git installed. The compiler part is the trickiest. How to do that depends on your system. See notes on Ubuntu, OS X and Windows for details.

# make sure you are using the latest pip
python -m pip install -U pip
git clone https://github.com/explosion/spaCy
cd spaCy

python -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate
export PYTHONPATH=`pwd`
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py build_ext --inplace

Compared to regular install via pip, requirements.txt additionally installs developer dependencies such as Cython. For more details and instructions, see the documentation on compiling spaCy from source and the quickstart widget to get the right commands for your platform and Python version.

Instead of the above verbose commands, you can also use the following Fabric commands. All commands assume that your virtual environment is located in a directory .env. If you’re using a different directory, you can change it via the environment variable VENV_DIR, for example VENV_DIR=".custom-env" fab clean make.

fab env

Create virtual environment and delete previous one, if it exists.

fab make

Compile the source.

fab clean

Remove compiled objects, including the generated C++.

fab test

Run basic tests, aborting after first failure.

Ubuntu

Install system-level dependencies via apt-get:

sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev git

macOS / OS X

Install a recent version of XCode, including the so-called “Command Line Tools”. macOS and OS X ship with Python and git preinstalled.

Windows

Install a version of Visual Studio Express or higher that matches the version that was used to compile your Python interpreter. For official distributions these are VS 2008 (Python 2.7), VS 2010 (Python 3.4) and VS 2015 (Python 3.5).

Run tests

spaCy comes with an extensive test suite. In order to run the tests, you’ll usually want to clone the repository and build spaCy from source. This will also install the required development dependencies and test utilities defined in the requirements.txt.

Alternatively, you can find out where spaCy is installed and run pytest on that directory. Don’t forget to also install the test utilities via spaCy’s requirements.txt:

python -c "import os; import spacy; print(os.path.dirname(spacy.__file__))"
pip install -r path/to/requirements.txt
python -m pytest <spacy-directory>

See the documentation for more details and examples.

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