spaCy
Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing in Python
spaCy is a free, open-source Python library for Natural Language Processing, supporting tasks like named entity recognition, part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, and text classification across 75+ languages. It is designed for production-scale workloads, written in memory-managed Cython for high performance. The library includes pretrained transformer-based pipelines, a reproducible training system, and end-to-end project management tools.
spaCy provides a Python API with pretrained pipelines and customizable components for text analysis, backed by Cython for speed and a configuration-driven training system for reproducibility.
data scientists, NLP engineers, and software developers
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
- Company
- Explosion AI
- Launched
- 2015
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