From 98fbdf285696cb92e7c17a8685d2fdb30ba84c14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Honnibal <honnibal@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 09:01:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] * Add Language.batch() method, to support multi-threaded jobs

---
 spacy/language.py | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spacy/language.py b/spacy/language.py
index 69abf16b3..05ffa4ce6 100644
--- a/spacy/language.py
+++ b/spacy/language.py
@@ -269,6 +269,17 @@ class Language(object):
             self.entity(tokens)
         return tokens
 
+    def batch(self, texts, tag=True, parse=True, entity=True):
+        if tag is False:
+            return [self(text, tag=tag, parse=parse, entity=entity)
+                    for text in texts]
+        docs = []
+        for text in texts:
+            doc = self(text, tag=True, parse=False, entity=entity)
+        if self.parser and parse:
+            self.parser.parse_batch(docs)
+        return docs
+
     def end_training(self, data_dir=None):
         if data_dir is None:
             data_dir = self.data_dir