SpaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python
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- #Machine Learning
- #Natural Language Processing
- #Python Library
- spaCy is a library for advanced Natural Language Processing in Python and Cython.
- It supports tokenization and training for 70+ languages with pretrained pipelines.
- Features include state-of-the-art speed, neural network models for various NLP tasks, and multi-task learning with transformers like BERT.
- spaCy is commercial open-source software released under the MIT license.
- Version 3.8 is the latest release with detailed documentation and usage guides available.
- Supports GPU processing, large language models integration, and has a rich ecosystem with plugins and extensions.
- Installation is supported via pip and conda, with detailed instructions for different operating systems.
- Trained pipelines can be installed as Python packages and loaded into applications.
- spaCy can be built from source, requiring a development environment with Python, a compiler, and other tools.
- Includes an extensive test suite for development and contribution.