From 00febda2e3d22d2f0fea2ca18f44bc1de491feec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Honnibal <honnibal+gh@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 01:04:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Improve alignment around quotes

---
 spacy/_align.pyx | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spacy/_align.pyx b/spacy/_align.pyx
index 07b6efbd4..8ae7cdf4e 100644
--- a/spacy/_align.pyx
+++ b/spacy/_align.pyx
@@ -186,6 +186,10 @@ def _convert_sequence(seq):
     cdef np.ndarray output = numpy.zeros((len(seq),), dtype='uint32')
     cdef bytes item_bytes
     for i, item in enumerate(seq):
+        if item == "``":
+            item = '"'
+        elif item == "''":
+            item = '"'
         if isinstance(item, unicode):
             item_bytes = item.encode('utf8')
         else: