Getting Started with spaCy
In this chapter, we will have a comprehensive introduction to natural language processing (NLP) application development with Python and spaCy. First, we will see how NLP development can go hand in hand with Python, along with an overview of what spaCy offers as a Python library.
After the warm-up, you will quickly get started with spaCy by downloading the library and loading the models. You will then explore spaCy’s popular visualizer, displaCy, to visualize language data and explore its various features.
By the end of this chapter, you will know what you can achieve with spaCy and gain an overview of some of its key features. You will be also settled with your development environment, which will be used in all the chapters of this book.
We’re going to cover the following topics:
- Overview of spaCy
- Installing spaCy
- Installing spaCy’s language models
- Visualization with displaCy
