SpaCyWhat is SpaCy?
It is a library for advanced Natural Language Processing in Python and Cython. It's built on the very latest research, and was designed from day one to be used in real products. It comes with pre-trained statistical models and word vectors, and currently supports tokenization for 49+ languages.
SpaCy is a tool in the Text & Language Models category of a tech stack.
SpaCy Pros & Cons
Pros of SpaCy
- ✓Speed
- ✓No vendor lock-in
Cons of SpaCy
- ✗Requires creating a training set and managing training
SpaCy Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to SpaCy?
Transformers
It provides general-purpose architectures (BERT, GPT-2, RoBERTa, XLM, DistilBert, XLNet…) for Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG) with over 32+ pretrained models in 100+ languages and deep interoperability between TensorFlow 2.0 and PyTorch.
rasa NLU
rasa NLU (Natural Language Understanding) is a tool for intent classification and entity extraction. You can think of rasa NLU as a set of high level APIs for building your own language parser using existing NLP and ML libraries.
Gensim
It is a Python library for topic modelling, document indexing and similarity retrieval with large corpora. Target audience is the natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR) community.
