SpaCy
Languages and libraries
nlp library
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
3 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.33.
Performance: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fast and accurate parsing, good for web-scale NLP
From 2 comments
If anyone is interested in NLP and hasn't had the chance to use spaCy yet, give it a go now - it's just two commands: "pip install spacy" and "python -m spacy.en.download" =]…
Smerity on HNThis is great! The web demo parses ordinary sentences with pretty good accuracy. I had to resort to twisters to confuse it: The old man the boat. (the elderly staff positions on…
Beltiras on HN
Demos and documentation are strong
From 2 comments
If anyone is interested in NLP and hasn't had the chance to use spaCy yet, give it a go now - it's just two commands: "pip install spacy" and "python -m spacy.en.download" =]…
Smerity on HNThe "Under Construction" theme of the dependency parse tree visualization tool[0] is amazing. [0] http://spacy.io/displacy/
bobwaycott on HN
Easy to install with pip
From 1 comment
If anyone is interested in NLP and hasn't had the chance to use spaCy yet, give it a go now - it's just two commands: "pip install spacy" and "python -m spacy.en.download" =]…
Smerity on HN
Objections
Only supports English
From 2 comments
It only supports english at the moment[0]. [0]http://spacy.io/#comparisons
rocko06 on HNAre other languages than English be supported ? I suppose so, but then how do I had another language ? How will it perform ?
ldng on HN
Parser misses on how parts of speech are applied in some sentences
From 1 comment
It's interesting, for sure, but it doesn't take trick sentences to confuse it. This somewhat opaque but totally realistic sentence:…
jMyles on HN
Requests
Support for other languages
From 2 comments
Are other languages than English be supported ? I suppose so, but then how do I had another language ? How will it perform ?
ldng on HNSo saw it was English only. Hence my question. How should I go about building support for another language ? I skimmed the doc but didn't see anything related to that question.…
ldng on HN
Glossary of annotation tags
From 1 comment
Is there a glossary of annotations? For example, what is "RELCL?"
jMyles on HN
Questions
How to build support for another language
From 1 comment
So saw it was English only. Hence my question. How should I go about building support for another language ? I skimmed the doc but didn't see anything related to that question.…
ldng on HN
Whether TreeBank can be used for training under AGPL
From 1 comment
So saw it was English only. Hence my question. How should I go about building support for another language ? I skimmed the doc but didn't see anything related to that question.…
ldng on HN
Meaning of the RELCL tag
From 2 comments
Is there a glossary of annotations? For example, what is "RELCL?"
jMyles on HNI can't be certain without the sentence that generated the tag, but coming from a linguistics background, RELCL is probably 'relative clause'.
bdchauvette on HN