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@@ -6,23 +6,20 @@ spaCy is a library for **advanced Natural Language Processing** in Python and
Cython. It's built on the very latest research, and was designed from day one to
be used in real products.
-spaCy comes with
-[pretrained pipelines](https://spacy.io/models) and
-currently supports tokenization and training for **70+ languages**. It features
-state-of-the-art speed and **neural network models** for tagging,
-parsing, **named entity recognition**, **text classification** and more,
-multi-task learning with pretrained **transformers** like BERT, as well as a
+spaCy comes with [pretrained pipelines](https://spacy.io/models) and currently
+supports tokenization and training for **70+ languages**. It features
+state-of-the-art speed and **neural network models** for tagging, parsing,
+**named entity recognition**, **text classification** and more, multi-task
+learning with pretrained **transformers** like BERT, as well as a
production-ready [**training system**](https://spacy.io/usage/training) and easy
model packaging, deployment and workflow management. spaCy is commercial
-open-source software, released under the [MIT license](https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/blob/master/LICENSE).
+open-source software, released under the
+[MIT license](https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/blob/master/LICENSE).
-💥 **We'd love to hear more about your experience with spaCy!**
-[Fill out our survey here.](https://form.typeform.com/to/aMel9q9f)
-
-💫 **Version 3.5 out now!**
+💫 **Version 3.6 out now!**
[Check out the release notes here.](https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases)
-[![Azure Pipelines](https://img.shields.io/azure-devops/build/explosion-ai/public/8/master.svg?logo=azure-pipelines&style=flat-square&label=build)](https://dev.azure.com/explosion-ai/public/_build?definitionId=8)
+[![tests](https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/actions/workflows/tests.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/actions/workflows/tests.yml)
[![Current Release Version](https://img.shields.io/github/release/explosion/spacy.svg?style=flat-square&logo=github)](https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases)
[![pypi Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/spacy.svg?style=flat-square&logo=pypi&logoColor=white)](https://pypi.org/project/spacy/)
[![conda Version](https://img.shields.io/conda/vn/conda-forge/spacy.svg?style=flat-square&logo=conda-forge&logoColor=white)](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/spacy)
@@ -35,22 +32,22 @@ open-source software, released under the [MIT license](https://github.com/explos
## 📖 Documentation
-| Documentation | |
-| ----------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| ⭐️ **[spaCy 101]** | New to spaCy? Here's everything you need to know! |
-| 📚 **[Usage Guides]** | How to use spaCy and its features. |
-| 🚀 **[New in v3.0]** | New features, backwards incompatibilities and migration guide. |
-| 🪐 **[Project Templates]** | End-to-end workflows you can clone, modify and run. |
-| 🎛 **[API Reference]** | The detailed reference for spaCy's API. |
-| 📦 **[Models]** | Download trained pipelines for spaCy. |
-| 🌌 **[Universe]** | Plugins, extensions, demos and books from the spaCy ecosystem. |
-| ⚙️ **[spaCy VS Code Extension]** | Additional tooling and features for working with spaCy's config files. |
-| 👩🏫 **[Online Course]** | Learn spaCy in this free and interactive online course. |
-| 📺 **[Videos]** | Our YouTube channel with video tutorials, talks and more. |
-| 🛠 **[Changelog]** | Changes and version history. |
-| 💝 **[Contribute]** | How to contribute to the spaCy project and code base. |
-| | Get a custom spaCy pipeline, tailor-made for your NLP problem by spaCy's core developers. Streamlined, production-ready, predictable and maintainable. Start by completing our 5-minute questionnaire to tell us what you need and we'll be in touch! **[Learn more →](https://explosion.ai/spacy-tailored-pipelines)** |
-| | Bespoke advice for problem solving, strategy and analysis for applied NLP projects. Services include data strategy, code reviews, pipeline design and annotation coaching. Curious? Fill in our 5-minute questionnaire to tell us what you need and we'll be in touch! **[Learn more →](https://explosion.ai/spacy-tailored-analysis)** |
+| Documentation | |
+| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| ⭐️ **[spaCy 101]** | New to spaCy? Here's everything you need to know! |
+| 📚 **[Usage Guides]** | How to use spaCy and its features. |
+| 🚀 **[New in v3.0]** | New features, backwards incompatibilities and migration guide. |
+| 🪐 **[Project Templates]** | End-to-end workflows you can clone, modify and run. |
+| 🎛 **[API Reference]** | The detailed reference for spaCy's API. |
+| 📦 **[Models]** | Download trained pipelines for spaCy. |
+| 🌌 **[Universe]** | Plugins, extensions, demos and books from the spaCy ecosystem. |
+| ⚙️ **[spaCy VS Code Extension]** | Additional tooling and features for working with spaCy's config files. |
+| 👩🏫 **[Online Course]** | Learn spaCy in this free and interactive online course. |
+| 📺 **[Videos]** | Our YouTube channel with video tutorials, talks and more. |
+| 🛠 **[Changelog]** | Changes and version history. |
+| 💝 **[Contribute]** | How to contribute to the spaCy project and code base. |
+| | Get a custom spaCy pipeline, tailor-made for your NLP problem by spaCy's core developers. Streamlined, production-ready, predictable and maintainable. Start by completing our 5-minute questionnaire to tell us what you need and we'll be in touch! **[Learn more →](https://explosion.ai/spacy-tailored-pipelines)** |
+| | Bespoke advice for problem solving, strategy and analysis for applied NLP projects. Services include data strategy, code reviews, pipeline design and annotation coaching. Curious? Fill in our 5-minute questionnaire to tell us what you need and we'll be in touch! **[Learn more →](https://explosion.ai/spacy-tailored-analysis)** |
[spacy 101]: https://spacy.io/usage/spacy-101
[new in v3.0]: https://spacy.io/usage/v3
@@ -58,7 +55,7 @@ open-source software, released under the [MIT license](https://github.com/explos
[api reference]: https://spacy.io/api/
[models]: https://spacy.io/models
[universe]: https://spacy.io/universe
-[spaCy VS Code Extension]: https://github.com/explosion/spacy-vscode
+[spacy vs code extension]: https://github.com/explosion/spacy-vscode
[videos]: https://www.youtube.com/c/ExplosionAI
[online course]: https://course.spacy.io
[project templates]: https://github.com/explosion/projects
@@ -92,7 +89,9 @@ more people can benefit from it.
- State-of-the-art speed
- Production-ready **training system**
- Linguistically-motivated **tokenization**
-- Components for named **entity recognition**, part-of-speech-tagging, dependency parsing, sentence segmentation, **text classification**, lemmatization, morphological analysis, entity linking and more
+- Components for named **entity recognition**, part-of-speech-tagging,
+ dependency parsing, sentence segmentation, **text classification**,
+ lemmatization, morphological analysis, entity linking and more
- Easily extensible with **custom components** and attributes
- Support for custom models in **PyTorch**, **TensorFlow** and other frameworks
- Built in **visualizers** for syntax and NER
@@ -118,8 +117,8 @@ For detailed installation instructions, see the
### pip
Using pip, spaCy releases are available as source packages and binary wheels.
-Before you install spaCy and its dependencies, make sure that
-your `pip`, `setuptools` and `wheel` are up to date.
+Before you install spaCy and its dependencies, make sure that your `pip`,
+`setuptools` and `wheel` are up to date.
```bash
pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
@@ -174,9 +173,9 @@ with the new version.
## 📦 Download model packages
-Trained pipelines for spaCy can be installed as **Python packages**. This
-means that they're a component of your application, just like any other module.
-Models can be installed using spaCy's [`download`](https://spacy.io/api/cli#download)
+Trained pipelines for spaCy can be installed as **Python packages**. This means
+that they're a component of your application, just like any other module. Models
+can be installed using spaCy's [`download`](https://spacy.io/api/cli#download)
command, or manually by pointing pip to a path or URL.
| Documentation | |
@@ -242,8 +241,7 @@ do that depends on your system.
| **Mac** | Install a recent version of [XCode](https://developer.apple.com/xcode/), including the so-called "Command Line Tools". macOS and OS X ship with Python and git preinstalled. |
| **Windows** | Install a version of the [Visual C++ Build Tools](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/) or [Visual Studio Express](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/express/) that matches the version that was used to compile your Python interpreter. |
-For more details
-and instructions, see the documentation on
+For more details and instructions, see the documentation on
[compiling spaCy from source](https://spacy.io/usage#source) and the
[quickstart widget](https://spacy.io/usage#section-quickstart) to get the right
commands for your platform and Python version.