* Allow Doc.char_span to snap to token boundaries
Add a `mode` option to allow `Doc.char_span` to snap to token
boundaries. The `mode` options:
* `strict`: character offsets must match token boundaries (default, same as
before)
* `inside`: all tokens completely within the character span
* `outside`: all tokens at least partially covered by the character span
Add a new helper function `token_by_char` that returns the token
corresponding to a character position in the text. Update
`token_by_start` and `token_by_end` to use `token_by_char` for more
efficient searching.
* Remove unused import
* Rename mode to alignment_mode
Rename `mode` to `alignment_mode` with the options
`strict`/`contract`/`expand`. Any unrecognized modes are silently
converted to `strict`.
* Make serialization methods consistent
exclude keyword argument instead of random named keyword arguments and deprecation handling
* Update docs and add section on serialization fields
* Use default return instead of else
* Add Doc.is_nered to indicate if entities have been set
* Add properties in Doc.to_json if they were set, not if they're available
This way, if a processed Doc exports "pos": None, it means that the tag was explicitly unset. If it exports "ents": [], it means that entity annotations are available but that this document doesn't contain any entities. Before, this would have been unclear and problematic for training.
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## Description
* tidy up and adjust Cython code to code style
* improve docstrings and make calling `help()` nicer
* add URLs to new docs pages to docstrings wherever possible, mostly to user-facing objects
* fix various typos and inconsistencies in docs
### Types of change
enhancement, docs
## Checklist
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## Description
This PR adds the abilility to override custom extension attributes during merging. This will only work for attributes that are writable, i.e. attributes registered with a default value like `default=False` or attribute that have both a getter *and* a setter implemented.
```python
Token.set_extension('is_musician', default=False)
doc = nlp("I like David Bowie.")
with doc.retokenize() as retokenizer:
attrs = {"LEMMA": "David Bowie", "_": {"is_musician": True}}
retokenizer.merge(doc[2:4], attrs=attrs)
assert doc[2].text == "David Bowie"
assert doc[2].lemma_ == "David Bowie"
assert doc[2]._.is_musician
```
### Types of change
enhancement
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## Description
The new website is implemented using [Gatsby](https://www.gatsbyjs.org) with [Remark](https://github.com/remarkjs/remark) and [MDX](https://mdxjs.com/). This allows authoring content in **straightforward Markdown** without the usual limitations. Standard elements can be overwritten with powerful [React](http://reactjs.org/) components and wherever Markdown syntax isn't enough, JSX components can be used. Hopefully, this update will also make it much easier to contribute to the docs. Once this PR is merged, I'll implement auto-deployment via [Netlify](https://netlify.com) on a specific branch (to avoid building the website on every PR). There's a bunch of other cool stuff that the new setup will allow us to do – including writing front-end tests, service workers, offline support, implementing a search and so on.
This PR also includes various new docs pages and content.
Resolves#3270. Resolves#3222. Resolves#2947. Resolves#2837.
### Types of change
enhancement
## Checklist
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Adriane Boyd