From c91642efd5dc0d5424af7b3095392bd9d441451a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ines Montani <ines.montani@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2017 11:43:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Port over changes from #1168

---
 spacy/lang/zh/__init__.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/spacy/lang/zh/__init__.py b/spacy/lang/zh/__init__.py
index d63323b4e..3f68336f8 100644
--- a/spacy/lang/zh/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/lang/zh/__init__.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ class Chinese(Language):
             raise ImportError("The Chinese tokenizer requires the Jieba library: "
                               "https://github.com/fxsjy/jieba")
         words = list(jieba.cut(text, cut_all=True))
+        words=[x for x in words if x]
         return Doc(self.vocab, words=words, spaces=[False]*len(words))