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    |  spaCy takes training data in JSON format. The built-in
    |  #[+api("cli#convert") #[code convert]] command helps you convert the
    |  #[code .conllu] format used by the
    |  #[+a("https://github.com/UniversalDependencies") Universal Dependencies corpora]
    |  to spaCy's training format.

+aside("Annotating entities")
    |  Named entities are provided in the #[+a("/api/annotation#biluo") BILUO]
    |  notation. Tokens outside an entity are set to #[code "O"] and tokens
    |  that are part of an entity are set to the entity label, prefixed by the
    |  BILUO marker. For example #[code "B-ORG"] describes the first token of
    |  a multi-token #[code ORG] entity and #[code "U-PERSON"] a single
    |  token representing a #[code PERSON] entity. The
    |  #[+api("goldparse#biluo_tags_from_offsets") #[code biluo_tags_from_offsets]]
    |  function can help you convert entity offsets to the right format.

+code("Example structure").
    [{
        "id": int,                      # ID of the document within the corpus
        "paragraphs": [{                # list of paragraphs in the corpus
            "raw": string,              # raw text of the paragraph
            "sentences": [{             # list of sentences in the paragraph
                "tokens": [{            # list of tokens in the sentence
                    "id": int,          # index of the token in the document
                    "dep": string,      # dependency label
                    "head": int,        # offset of token head relative to token index
                    "tag": string,      # part-of-speech tag
                    "orth": string,     # verbatim text of the token
                    "ner": string       # BILUO label, e.g. "O" or "B-ORG"
                }],
                "brackets": [{          # phrase structure (NOT USED by current models)
                    "first": int,       # index of first token
                    "last": int,        # index of last token
                    "label": string     # phrase label
                }]
            }]
        }]
    }]

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    |  Here's an example of dependencies, part-of-speech tags and names
    |  entities, taken from the English Wall Street Journal portion of the Penn
    |  Treebank:

+github("spacy", "examples/training/training-data.json", false, false, "json")