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//-  Docs > Quickstart > Usage Examples
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+section('examples')
    +h2('examples').
        Usage Examples

    +h3('examples-resources') Load resources and process text

    +code.
        from spacy.en import English
        nlp = English()
        doc = nlp(u'Hello, world. Here are two sentences.')

    +h3('multi-threaded') Multi-threaded generator (using OpenMP. No GIL!)

    +code.
        texts = [u'One document.', u'...', u'Lots of documents']
        # .pipe streams input, and produces streaming output
        iter_texts = (texts[i % 3] for i in xrange(100000000))
        for i, doc in enumerate(nlp.pipe(iter_texts, batch_size=50, n_threads=4)):
            assert doc.is_parsed
            if i == 100:
                break

    +h3('examples-tokens-sentences') Get tokens and sentences

    +code.
        token = doc[0]
        sentence = next(doc.sents)
        assert token is sentence[0]
        assert sentence.text == 'Hello, world.'

    +h3('examples-integer-ids') Use integer IDs for any string

    +code.
        hello_id = nlp.vocab.strings['Hello']
        hello_str = nlp.vocab.strings[hello_id]

        assert token.orth  == hello_id  == 3125
        assert token.orth_ == hello_str == 'Hello'

    +h3('examples-string-views-flags') Get and set string views and flags

    +code.
        assert token.shape_ == 'Xxxxx'
        for lexeme in nlp.vocab:
            if lexeme.is_alpha:
                lexeme.shape_ = 'W'
            elif lexeme.is_digit:
                lexeme.shape_ = 'D'
            elif lexeme.is_punct:
                lexeme.shape_ = 'P'
            else:
                lexeme.shape_ = 'M'
        assert token.shape_ == 'W'

    +h3('examples-numpy-arrays') Export to numpy arrays

    +code.
        from spacy.attrs import ORTH, LIKE_URL, IS_OOV

        attr_ids = [ORTH, LIKE_URL, IS_OOV]
        doc_array = doc.to_array(attr_ids)
        assert doc_array.shape == (len(doc), len(attr_ids))
        assert doc[0].orth == doc_array[0, 0]
        assert doc[1].orth == doc_array[1, 0]
        assert doc[0].like_url == doc_array[0, 1]
        assert list(doc_array[:, 1]) == [t.like_url for t in doc]

    +h3('examples-word-vectors') Word vectors

    +code.
        doc = nlp("Apples and oranges are similar. Boots and hippos aren't.")

        apples = doc[0]
        oranges = doc[2]
        boots = doc[6]
        hippos = doc[8]

        assert apples.similarity(oranges) > boots.similarity(hippos)

    +h3('examples-pos-tags') Part-of-speech tags

    +code.
        from spacy.parts_of_speech import ADV

        def is_adverb(token):
            return token.pos == spacy.parts_of_speech.ADV

        # These are data-specific, so no constants are provided. You have to look
        # up the IDs from the StringStore.
        NNS = nlp.vocab.strings['NNS']
        NNPS = nlp.vocab.strings['NNPS']
        def is_plural_noun(token):
            return token.tag == NNS or token.tag == NNPS

        def print_coarse_pos(token):
            print(token.pos_)

        def print_fine_pos(token):
            print(token.tag_)

    +h3('examples-dependencies') Syntactic dependencies

    +code.
        def dependency_labels_to_root(token):
            '''Walk up the syntactic tree, collecting the arc labels.'''
            dep_labels = []
            while token.head is not token:
                dep_labels.append(token.dep)
                token = token.head
            return dep_labels

    +h3('examples-entities') Named entities

    +code.
        def iter_products(docs):
            for doc in docs:
                for ent in doc.ents:
                    if ent.label_ == 'PRODUCT':
                        yield ent

        def word_is_in_entity(word):
            return word.ent_type != 0

        def count_parent_verb_by_person(docs):
            counts = defaultdict(defaultdict(int))
            for doc in docs:
                for ent in doc.ents:
                    if ent.label_ == 'PERSON' and ent.root.head.pos == VERB:
                        counts[ent.orth_][ent.root.head.lemma_] += 1
            return counts

    +h3('examples-inline') Calculate inline mark-up on original string

    +code.
        def put_spans_around_tokens(doc, get_classes):
            '''Given some function to compute class names, put each token in a
            span element, with the appropriate classes computed.

            All whitespace is preserved, outside of the spans. (Yes, I know HTML
            won't display it. But the point is no information is lost, so you can
            calculate what you need, e.g. <br /> tags, <p> tags, etc.)
            '''
            output = []
            template = '<span classes="{classes}">{word}</span>{space}'
            for token in doc:
                if token.is_space:
                    output.append(token.orth_)
                else:
                    output.append(
                      template.format(
                        classes=' '.join(get_classes(token)),
                        word=token.orth_,
                        space=token.whitespace_))
            string = ''.join(output)
            string = string.replace('\n', '')
            string = string.replace('\t', '    ')
            return string

    +h3('examples-binary') Efficient binary serialization

    +code.
        from spacy.tokens.doc import Doc

        byte_string = doc.to_bytes()
        open('moby_dick.bin', 'wb').write(byte_string)

        nlp = spacy.en.English()
        for byte_string in Doc.read_bytes(open('moby_dick.bin', 'rb')):
           doc = Doc(nlp.vocab)
           doc.from_bytes(byte_string)