From 153758bf65f00d25b9f83ed78d6b2c1eba5fa4f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Honnibal Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2015 12:26:45 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] * Hack on index.rst --- docs/source/index.rst | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/source/index.rst b/docs/source/index.rst index d323a576e..7a6137bc4 100644 --- a/docs/source/index.rst +++ b/docs/source/index.rst @@ -14,7 +14,21 @@ spaCy: Industrial-strength NLP .. _Version 0.87 released: updates.html -`spaCy`_ is a new library for text processing in Python and Cython. +`spaCy`_ is a new library for text processing in Python and Cython. It is designed +to be production quality, general purpose, and up-to-the-minute with the latest +research. It offers similar functionality to Stanford's CoreNLP, but is +faster, more accurate, and offers commercial licensing options (you can also +use it under the AGPL). + +If you're trying to do something that's never been done before, spaCy can +instantly fast-forward you to all the best of what *has* been done --- even if +it's only been done in a paper that was published two months ago. + + +It is a production-quality implementation of underlying, general-purpose +natural language understandi +Its mission is to make a prod the latest natural language understanding +research into practice, by making a production-quality implementation I wrote it because I think small companies are terrible at natural language processing (NLP). Or rather: small companies are using terrible NLP technology.