diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/spancat_exclusive.py b/spacy/pipeline/spancat_exclusive.py
index b68df3db1..1c62fa7b2 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/spancat_exclusive.py
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/spancat_exclusive.py
@@ -1,19 +1,20 @@
-from typing import List, Dict, Callable, Tuple, Optional, Iterable, Any, cast
-from thinc.api import Config, Model, get_current_ops, set_dropout_rate, Ops
-from thinc.api import Optimizer, Softmax_v2
-from thinc.types import Ragged, Ints2d, Floats2d, Ints1d
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Iterable, List, Optional, Tuple, cast
 
 import numpy
+from thinc.api import Config, Model, Ops, Optimizer, Softmax_v2
+from thinc.api import get_current_ops, set_dropout_rate
+from thinc.types import Floats2d, Ints1d, Ints2d, Ragged
 
 from ..compat import Protocol, runtime_checkable
-from ..scorer import Scorer
-from ..language import Language
-from .trainable_pipe import TrainablePipe
-from ..tokens import Doc, SpanGroup, Span
-from ..vocab import Vocab
-from ..training import Example, validate_examples
 from ..errors import Errors
+from ..language import Language
+from ..tokens import Doc, Span, SpanGroup
+from ..training import Example, validate_examples
 from ..util import registry
+from ..vocab import Vocab
+from .spancat import spancat_score
+from .trainable_pipe import TrainablePipe
 
 
 @registry.layers("spacy.Softmax.v1")
@@ -68,11 +69,386 @@ class Suggester(Protocol):
         "suggester": {"@misc": "spacy.ngram_suggester.v1", "sizes": [1, 2, 3]},
         "scorer": {"@scorers": "spacy.spancat_scorer.v1"},
     },
+    default_score_weights={"spans_sc_f": 1.0, "spans_sc_p": 0.0, "spans_sc_r": 0.0},
 )
 def make_spancat(
     nlp: Language,
     name: str,
     suggester: Suggester,
     model: Model[Tuple[List[Doc], Ragged], Floats2d],
-):
-    pass
+    spans_key: str,
+    scorer: Optional[Callable],
+    negative_weight: Optional[float] = 1.0,
+    allow_overlap: Optional[bool] = True,
+) -> "SpanCategorizerExclusive":
+    """Create a SpanCategorizer component. The span categorizer consists of two
+    parts: a suggester function that proposes candidate spans, and a labeller
+    model that predicts one or more labels for each span.
+
+    suggester (Callable[[Iterable[Doc], Optional[Ops]], Ragged]): A function that suggests spans.
+        Spans are returned as a ragged array with two integer columns, for the
+        start and end positions.
+    model (Model[Tuple[List[Doc], Ragged], Floats2d]): A model instance that
+        is given a list of documents and (start, end) indices representing
+        candidate span offsets. The model predicts a probability for each category
+        for each span.
+    spans_key (str): Key of the doc.spans dict to save the spans under. During
+        initialization and training, the component will look for spans on the
+        reference document under the same key.
+    negative_weight (optional[float]): Multiplier for the loss terms.
+        Can be used to down weigh the negative samples if there are too many.
+    allow_overlap (Optional[bool]): If True the data is assumed to
+        contain overlapping spans.
+    """
+    return SpanCategorizerExclusive(
+        nlp.vocab,
+        suggester=suggester,
+        model=model,
+        spans_key=spans_key,
+        negative_weight=negative_weight,
+        name=name,
+        scorer=scorer,
+        allow_overlap=allow_overlap,
+    )
+
+
+@dataclass
+class Ranges:
+    """
+    Helper class help avoid storing overlapping span.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.ranges = set()
+
+    def add(self, i, j):
+        for e in range(i, j):
+            self.ranges.add(e)
+
+    def __contains__(self, rang):
+        i, j = rang
+        for e in range(i, j):
+            if e in self.ranges:
+                return True
+        return False
+
+
+class SpanCategorizerExclusive(TrainablePipe):
+    """Pipeline component to label spans of text.
+    DOCS: https://spacy.io/api/spancategorizer
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        vocab: Vocab,
+        model: Model[Tuple[List[Doc], Ragged], Floats2d],
+        suggester: Suggester,
+        name: str = "spancat_exclusive",
+        *,
+        spans_key: str = "spans",
+        negative_weight: Optional[float],
+        scorer: Optional[Callable] = spancat_score,
+        allow_overlap: Optional[bool] = True,
+    ) -> None:
+        """Initialize the span categorizer.
+        vocab (Vocab): The shared vocabulary.
+        model (thinc.api.Model): The Thinc Model powering the pipeline component.
+        name (str): The component instance name, used to add entries to the
+            losses during training.
+        spans_key (str): Key of the Doc.spans dict to save the spans under.
+            During initialization and training, the component will look for
+            spans on the reference document under the same key. Defaults to
+            `"spans"`.
+        negative_weight (optional[float]): Multiplier for the loss terms.
+            Can be used to down weigh the negative samples if there are too many.
+        scorer (Optional[Callable]): The scoring method. Defaults to
+        allow_overlap (Optional[bool]): If True the data is assumed to
+            contains overlapping spans.
+        Scorer.score_spans for the Doc.spans[spans_key] with overlapping
+        spans allowed.
+        DOCS: https://spacy.io/api/spancategorizer#init
+        """
+        self.cfg = {
+            "labels": [],
+            "spans_key": spans_key,
+            "negative_weight": negative_weight,
+            "allow_overlap": allow_overlap,
+        }
+        self.vocab = vocab
+        self.suggester = suggester
+        self.model = model
+        self.name = name
+        self.scorer = scorer
+
+    @property
+    def key(self) -> str:
+        """Key of the doc.spans dict to save the spans under. During
+        initialization and training, the component will look for spans on the
+        reference document under the same key.
+        """
+        return str(self.cfg["spans_key"])
+
+    def add_label(self, label: str) -> int:
+        """Add a new label to the pipe.
+        label (str): The label to add.
+        RETURNS (int): 0 if label is already present, otherwise 1.
+        DOCS: https://spacy.io/api/spancategorizer#add_label
+        """
+        if not isinstance(label, str):
+            raise ValueError(Errors.E187)
+        if label in self.labels:
+            return 0
+        self._allow_extra_label()
+        self.cfg["labels"].append(label)  # type: ignore
+        self.vocab.strings.add(label)
+        return 1
+
+    @property
+    def labels(self) -> Tuple[str]:
+        """RETURNS (Tuple[str]): The labels currently added to the component.
+        DOCS: https://spacy.io/api/spancategorizer#labels
+        """
+        return tuple(self.cfg["labels"])  # type: ignore
+
+    @property
+    def label_data(self) -> List[str]:
+        """RETURNS (List[str]): Information about the component's labels.
+        DOCS: https://spacy.io/api/spancategorizer#label_data
+        """
+        return list(self.labels)
+
+    @property
+    def _negative_label(self):
+        """
+        Index of the negative label.
+        """
+        return len(self.label_data)
+
+    @property
+    def _n_labels(self):
+        """
+        Number of labels including the negative label.
+        """
+        return len(self.label_data) + 1
+
+    def predict(self, docs: Iterable[Doc]):
+        """Apply the pipeline's model to a batch of docs, without modifying them.
+        docs (Iterable[Doc]): The documents to predict.
+        RETURNS: The models prediction for each document.
+        DOCS: https://spacy.io/api/spancategorizer#predict
+        """
+        indices = self.suggester(docs, ops=self.model.ops)
+        scores = self.model.predict((docs, indices))  # type: ignore
+        return indices, scores
+
+    def set_candidates(
+        self, docs: Iterable[Doc], *, candidates_key: str = "candidates"
+    ) -> None:
+        """Use the spancat suggester to add a list of span candidates to a
+        list of docs. Intended to be used for debugging purposes.
+        docs (Iterable[Doc]): The documents to modify.
+        candidates_key (str): Key of the Doc.spans dict to save the
+            candidate spans under.
+        DOCS: https://spacy.io/api/spancategorizer#set_candidates
+        """
+        suggester_output = self.suggester(docs, ops=self.model.ops)
+
+        for candidates, doc in zip(suggester_output, docs):  # type: ignore
+            doc.spans[candidates_key] = []
+            for index in candidates.dataXd:
+                doc.spans[candidates_key].append(doc[index[0] : index[1]])
+
+    def set_annotations(self, docs: Iterable[Doc], indices_scores) -> None:
+        """Modify a batch of Doc objects, using pre-computed scores.
+        docs (Iterable[Doc]): The documents to modify.
+        scores: The scores to set, produced by SpanCategorizer.predict.
+        DOCS: https://spacy.io/api/spancategorizer#set_annotations
+        """
+        allow_overlap = self.cfg["allow_overlap"]
+        labels = self.labels
+        indices, scores = indices_scores
+        offset = 0
+        for i, doc in enumerate(docs):
+            indices_i = indices[i].dataXd
+            doc.spans[self.key] = self._make_span_group(
+                doc,
+                indices_i,
+                scores[offset : offset + indices.lengths[i]],
+                labels,
+                allow_overlap,
+            )  # type: ignore[arg-type]
+            offset += indices.lengths[i]
+
+    def update(
+        self,
+        examples: Iterable[Example],
+        *,
+        drop: float = 0.0,
+        sgd: Optional[Optimizer] = None,
+        losses: Optional[Dict[str, float]] = None,
+    ) -> Dict[str, float]:
+        """Learn from a batch of documents and gold-standard information,
+        updating the pipe's model. Delegates to predict and get_loss.
+        examples (Iterable[Example]): A batch of Example objects.
+        drop (float): The dropout rate.
+        sgd (thinc.api.Optimizer): The optimizer.
+        losses (Dict[str, float]): Optional record of the loss during training.
+            Updated using the component name as the key.
+        RETURNS (Dict[str, float]): The updated losses dictionary.
+        DOCS: https://spacy.io/api/spancategorizer#update
+        """
+        if losses is None:
+            losses = {}
+        losses.setdefault(self.name, 0.0)
+        validate_examples(examples, "SpanCategorizer.update")
+        self._validate_categories(examples)
+        if not any(len(eg.predicted) if eg.predicted else 0 for eg in examples):
+            # Handle cases where there are no tokens in any docs.
+            return losses
+        docs = [eg.predicted for eg in examples]
+        spans = self.suggester(docs, ops=self.model.ops)
+        if spans.lengths.sum() == 0:
+            return losses
+        set_dropout_rate(self.model, drop)
+        scores, backprop_scores = self.model.begin_update((docs, spans))
+        loss, d_scores = self.get_loss(examples, (spans, scores))
+        backprop_scores(d_scores)  # type: ignore
+        if sgd is not None:
+            self.finish_update(sgd)
+        losses[self.name] += loss
+        return losses
+
+    def get_loss(
+        self, examples: Iterable[Example], spans_scores: Tuple[Ragged, Floats2d]
+    ) -> Tuple[float, float]:
+        """Find the loss and gradient of loss for the batch of documents and
+        their predicted scores.
+        examples (Iterable[Examples]): The batch of examples.
+        spans_scores: Scores representing the model's predictions.
+        RETURNS (Tuple[float, float]): The loss and the gradient.
+        DOCS: https://spacy.io/api/spancategorizer#get_loss
+        """
+        spans, scores = spans_scores
+        spans = Ragged(
+            self.model.ops.to_numpy(spans.data), self.model.ops.to_numpy(spans.lengths)
+        )
+        label_map = {label: i for i, label in enumerate(self.labels)}
+        target = numpy.zeros(scores.shape, dtype=scores.dtype)
+        # Set negative class as target initially for all samples.
+        negative_spans = numpy.ones((scores.shape[0]))
+        offset = 0
+        for i, eg in enumerate(examples):
+            # Map (start, end) offset of spans to the row in the
+            # d_scores array, so that we can adjust the gradient
+            # for predictions that were in the gold standard.
+            spans_index = {}
+            spans_i = spans[i].dataXd
+            for j in range(spans.lengths[i]):
+                start = int(spans_i[j, 0])  # type: ignore
+                end = int(spans_i[j, 1])  # type: ignore
+                spans_index[(start, end)] = offset + j
+            for gold_span in self._get_aligned_spans(eg):
+                key = (gold_span.start, gold_span.end)
+                if key in spans_index:
+                    row = spans_index[key]
+                    k = label_map[gold_span.label_]
+                    target[row, k] = 1.0
+                    # delete negative label target.
+                    negative_spans[row] = 0.0
+            # The target is a flat array for all docs. Track the position
+            # we're at within the flat array.
+            offset += spans.lengths[i]
+        target = self.model.ops.asarray(target, dtype="f")  # type: ignore
+        negative_samples = numpy.nonzero(negative_spans)[0]
+        target[negative_samples, self._negative_label] = 1.0
+        d_scores = scores - target
+        neg_weight = self.cfg["negative_weight"]
+        if neg_weight != 1.0:
+            d_scores[negative_samples] *= neg_weight
+        loss = float((d_scores**2).sum())
+        return loss, d_scores
+
+    def initialize(
+        self,
+        get_examples: Callable[[], Iterable[Example]],
+        *,
+        nlp: Optional[Language] = None,
+        labels: Optional[List[str]] = None,
+    ) -> None:
+        """Initialize the pipe for training, using a representative set
+        of data examples.
+        get_examples (Callable[[], Iterable[Example]]): Function that
+            returns a representative sample of gold-standard Example objects.
+        nlp (Optional[Language]): The current nlp object the component is part of.
+        labels (Optional[List[str]]): The labels to add to the component, typically generated by the
+            `init labels` command. If no labels are provided, the get_examples
+            callback is used to extract the labels from the data.
+        DOCS: https://spacy.io/api/spancategorizer#initialize
+        """
+        subbatch: List[Example] = []
+        if labels is not None:
+            for label in labels:
+                self.add_label(label)
+        for eg in get_examples():
+            if labels is None:
+                for span in eg.reference.spans.get(self.key, []):
+                    self.add_label(span.label_)
+            if len(subbatch) < 10:
+                subbatch.append(eg)
+        self._require_labels()
+        if subbatch:
+            docs = [eg.x for eg in subbatch]
+            spans = build_ngram_suggester(sizes=[1])(docs)
+            # + 1 for the "no-label" category
+            Y = self.model.ops.alloc2f(spans.dataXd.shape[0], self._n_labels)
+            self.model.initialize(X=(docs, spans), Y=Y)
+        # FIXME I think this branch is broken
+        else:
+            raise ValueError("Cannot initialize without examples.")
+
+    def _validate_categories(self, examples: Iterable[Example]):
+        # TODO
+        pass
+
+    def _get_aligned_spans(self, eg: Example):
+        return eg.get_aligned_spans_y2x(
+            eg.reference.spans.get(self.key, []), allow_overlap=True
+        )
+
+    def _make_span_group(
+        self,
+        doc: Doc,
+        indices: Ints2d,
+        scores: Floats2d,
+        labels: List[str],
+        allow_overlap: bool = True,
+    ) -> SpanGroup:
+        scores = self.model.ops.to_numpy(scores)
+        indices = self.model.ops.to_numpy(indices)
+        predicted = scores.argmax(axis=1)
+        # Remove samples where the negative label is the argmax
+        positive = numpy.where(predicted != self._negative_label)
+        predicted = predicted[positive[0]]
+        indices = indices[positive[0]]
+        # Sort spans according to argmax probability
+        if not allow_overlap:
+            argmax_probs = numpy.take_along_axis(
+                scores[positive[0]], numpy.expand_dims(predicted, 1), axis=1
+            )
+            argmax_probs = argmax_probs.squeeze()
+            sort_idx = (argmax_probs * -1).argsort()
+            predicted = predicted[sort_idx]
+            indices = indices[sort_idx]
+        seen = Ranges()
+        spans = SpanGroup(doc, name=self.key)
+        for i in range(len(predicted)):
+            label = predicted[i]
+            start = indices[i, 0]
+            end = indices[i, 1]
+            if not allow_overlap:
+                if (start, end) in seen:
+                    continue
+                else:
+                    seen.add(start, end)
+            spans.append(Span(doc, start, end, label=labels[label]))
+        return spans