diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 27137d82e..da600f235 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ MOD_NAMES = [
     'spacy.attrs',
     'spacy.morphology',
     'spacy.tagger',
+    'spacy.pipeline',
     'spacy.syntax.stateclass',
     'spacy.syntax._state',
     'spacy.tokenizer',
diff --git a/spacy/pipeline.pxd b/spacy/pipeline.pxd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4323cdb44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spacy/pipeline.pxd
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+from .syntax.parser cimport Parser
+from .syntax.ner cimport BiluoPushDown
+from .syntax.arc_eager cimport ArcEager
+
+
+cdef class EntityRecognizer(Parser):
+    pass
+
+
+cdef class DependencyParser(Parser):
+    pass
diff --git a/spacy/pipeline.pyx b/spacy/pipeline.pyx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..53efce020
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spacy/pipeline.pyx
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+from .syntax.parser cimport Parser
+from .syntax.ner cimport BiluoPushDown
+from .syntax.arc_eager cimport ArcEager
+from .vocab cimport Vocab
+from .tagger cimport Tagger
+
+
+cdef class EntityRecognizer(Parser):
+    @classmethod
+    def load(cls, path, Vocab vocab):
+        return Parser.load(path, vocab, BiluoPushDown)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def blank(cls, Vocab vocab, **cfg):
+        if 'actions' not in cfg:
+            cfg['actions'] = {}
+            entity_types = cfg.get('entity_types', [''])
+            for action_type in (1, 2, 3, 4):
+                cfg['actions'][action_type] = {ent_type: True for ent_type in entity_types}
+        return Parser.blank(vocab, BiluoPushDown, **cfg)
+
+
+cdef class DependencyParser(Parser):
+    @classmethod
+    def load(cls, path, Vocab vocab):
+        return Parser.load(path, vocab, ArcEager)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def blank(cls, Vocab vocab, **cfg):
+        if 'actions' not in cfg:
+            cfg['actions'] = {1: {'': True}, 2: {'': True}, 3: {}, 4: {},
+                              5: {'ROOT': True}}
+            for label in cfg.get('left_labels', []):
+                cfg['actions'][3][label] = True
+            for label in cfg.get('right_labels', []):
+                cfg['actions'][4][label] = True
+            for label in cfg.get('break_labels', []):
+                cfg['actions'][5][label] = True
+        return Parser.blank(vocab, ArcEager, **cfg)
+
+
+__all__ = [Tagger, DependencyParser, EntityRecognizer]