From 9ef30b0cdecff4bf16af82faf56b320ea80ffad5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Honnibal <honnibal+gh@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 20:10:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Accept 'text' in matcher as an alternative to ORTH

---
 spacy/matcher.pyx | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spacy/matcher.pyx b/spacy/matcher.pyx
index 726a50d18..23449aa57 100644
--- a/spacy/matcher.pyx
+++ b/spacy/matcher.pyx
@@ -342,6 +342,8 @@ def _convert_strings(token_specs, string_store):
                     keys = ', '.join(operators.keys())
                     raise KeyError(Errors.E011.format(op=value, opts=keys))
             if isinstance(attr, basestring):
+                if attr.upper() == 'TEXT':
+                    attr = 'ORTH'
                 attr = IDS.get(attr.upper())
             if isinstance(value, basestring):
                 value = string_store.add(value)