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spaCy: Industrial-strength NLP
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spaCy is a new library for industrial-strength text processing in Python and Cython.
It is commercial open source software, with a dual (AGPL or commercial)
license.
spaCy is a new library for text processing in Python and Cython.
I've been working on this full-time for the last six months, and am excited to
announce its beta release.
If you're a small company doing NLP, spaCy should seem like a minor miracle.
Most commercial NLP development is based on obsolete
technology. Over the last 3-5 years, the field has advanced dramatically, but
only the tech giants have really been able to capitalize. The research is all
public, but it's been too hard for small companies to read and apply it.
Many end up relying on `NLTK`_, which is intended primarily as an educational
resource.
.. _NLTK: https://www.nltk.org/
If you're a small company doing NLP, I think spaCy will seem like a minor miracle.
It's by far the fastest NLP software available. The full processing pipeline
completes in 7ms, including state-of-the-art tagging and parsing. All strings
completes in 7ms per document, including accurate tagging and parsing. All strings
are mapped to integer IDs, tokens are linked to embedded word representations,
and a range of useful features are pre-calculated and cached.
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We want to shorten text to display it on a mobile screen. We want to aggregate
it, link it, filter it, categorise it, generate it and correct it.
spaCy provides a set of utility functions that help programmers build such
products. It's an NLP engine, analogous to the 3d engines commonly licensed
for game development.
spaCy provides a library of utility functions that help programmers build such
products. It's commercial open source software: you can either use it under
the AGPL, or you can `buy a commercial license`_ for a one-time fee.
.. _buy a commercial license: license.rst
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