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.. spaCy documentation master file, created by
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sphinx-quickstart on Tue Aug 19 16:27:38 2014.
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You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least
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contain the root `toctree` directive.
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spaCy: Industrial-strength NLP
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`spaCy`_ is a library for building tomorrow's language technology products.
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It's like Stanford's CoreNLP for Python, but with a fundamentally different
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objective. While CoreNLP is primarily built for conducting research, spaCy is
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designed for application.
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If you're a small company doing NLP, I think spaCy will seem like a minor miracle.
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It's by far the fastest NLP software ever released.
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The full processing pipeline completes in under 50ms per document, including accurate
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tagging, entity recognition and parsing. All strings are mapped to integer IDs,
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tokens are linked to embedded word representations, and a range of useful features
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are pre-calculated and cached. The full analysis can be exported to numpy
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arrays, or losslessly serialized into binary data smaller than the raw text.
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If none of that made any sense to you, here's the gist of it. Computers don't
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understand text. This is unfortunate, because that's what the web almost entirely
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consists of. We want to recommend people text based on other text they liked.
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We want to shorten text to display it on a mobile screen. We want to aggregate
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it, link it, filter it, categorise it, generate it and correct it.
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spaCy provides a library of utility functions that help programmers build such
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products. It's commercial open source software: you can either use it under
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the AGPL, or you can `buy a commercial license`_ for a one-time fee.
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.. _spaCy: https://github.com/honnibal/spaCy/
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.. _Issue Tracker: https://github.com/honnibal/spaCy/issues
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**2015-07-08**: `Version 0.89 released`_
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.. _Version 0.89 released: updates.html
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.. _buy a commercial license: license.html
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 4
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:hidden:
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quickstart.rst
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reference/index.rst
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license.rst
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updates.rst
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