Introduction
spaCy is a Python library for Natural Language Processing (NLP). NLP pipelines with
spaCy are free and open source. Developers use it to create information extraction
and natural language comprehension systems, as in Cython. Use the tool for
production, boasting a concise and user-friendly API.
NLP Pipelines with spaCy
If you work with a lot of text, you’ll want to learn more about it. What, for
example, is it about? In what context do the terms mean? What is being done to
whom? Which businesses and goods are mentioned? What texts are comparable to one
another?
spaCy is intended for production usage and assists you in developing apps that
process and “understand” enormous amounts of text. It may be used to create systems
for information extraction, natural language interpretation, and pre-process text
for deep learning.
Learning Objectives
Discover the fundamentals of spaCy, such as tokenization, part-of-speech tagging,
and named entity identification.
Understand spaCy’s text processing architecture, which is efficient and quick,
making it appropriate for large-scale NLP jobs.
In spaCy, you may explore NLP pipelines and create bespoke pipelines for specific
tasks.
Explore the advanced capabilities of spaCy, including rule-based matching,
syntactic parsing, and entity linking.
Learn about the many pre-trained language models available in spaCy and how to
utilize them for various NLP applications.
Learn named entity recognition (NER) strategies for identifying and categorizing
entities in text using spaCy.
This article was published as a part of the Data Science Blogathon.
Table of contents
Introduction
Statistical Models
Linguistic Annotations
spaCy’s Processing Pipeline
Tokenization
Part-Of-Speech (POS) Tagging
Entity Detection
Similarity
Conclusion
Frequently Asked Questions
Statistical Models
Certain spaCy characteristics function autonomously, while others require the
loading of statistical models. These models enable spaCy to predict linguistic
annotations, like determining whether a word is a verb or a noun. Currently, spaCy
offers statistical models for various languages, and you can install them as
individual Python modules. They usually incorporate the following elements:
To forecast those annotations in context, assign the binary weights to the part-of-
speech tagger, dependency parser, and named entity recognizer.
Lexical entries in the vocabulary are words and their context-independent
characteristics, such as form or spelling.
Lemmatization rules and lookup tables are examples of data files.
Word vectors are multidimensional meaning representations of words that allow you
to identify how similar they are.
Use Configuration choices, such as language and processing pipeline settings, to
put spaCy in the proper condition when the model is loaded.