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💫 Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

27 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 12 stories, 15 comments · first 2016-11-01 · latest 2026-03-19

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  1. …unable to infer type for attribute "REGEX" Which seems to be [this bug in spacey]( https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/issues/13895 ), so I'm going to have to try adding `<3.14` to `requires-python` in `pyproject.toml` too I think. That is,…
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    SpaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python
    story by marklit · 2025-08-23 · 64 comments
  3. Geez honestly This seems to be the issue https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/issues/13658#issuecomment... And you depend on opinionated libraries that break with newer versions. Why? Well because f you that's why! Because our library is not…
  4. …any non-trivial project will have to wait till Oct 2026 (or Oct 2027) to be able to use it. 1 - https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/issues/13658
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    SpaCy has a built-in memory leak, you must reload to purge growing vocab cache
    story by donsupreme · 2023-06-30 · 0 comments
  6. …wrangling in Cython to speed up processing and save memory (trees are encoded as compact C unions): https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/blob/master/spacy/pipelin... 2. I am working on a biaffine parser for spaCy. Most implementations of…
    comment by danieldk · 2022-04-04 · in Cython is 20
  7. Is this issue also related? https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/issues/9606
    comment by Rabidgremlin · 2021-11-28 · in GitHub Broken Download URLs
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    SpaCy Release v3.2.0
    story by jonbaer · 2021-11-05 · 0 comments
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    'Weights and Biases' sending spam to users that starred spaCy Python repo
    story by vegadw · 2021-04-28 · 0 comments
  10. …from an sdist if they want to compile from source. In fact you can do the following: git clone https://github.com/explosion/spaCy cd spaCy make This will build you a standalone executable file, in the pex format, that only depends on your…
    comment by syllogism · 2021-02-01 · in SpaCy 3.0
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    SpaCy 3.0
    story by syllogism · 2021-02-01 · 81 comments
  12. spaCy doesn't localize errors, but it does do a beautiful job of managing that kind of error codes. https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/blob/master/spacy/errors....
  13. …https://docsify.js.org/#/ (or thousands of similar generators..) The docs are based on markdown https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/tree/master/website/docs
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    Large scale Information Extraction Engine
    story by 5rest · 2019-04-03 · 0 comments
  15. …- https://github.com/pypa/pipenv - https://github.com/google/python-fire - https://github.com/explosion/spaCy
  16. Nice! Relevant links for anyone interested: * spaCy on Github: https://github.com/explosion/spacy * NER demo: https://demos.explosion.ai/displacy-ent/ * Neural coref by HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/coref/ * Accuracy of built-in…
  17. Current discussion: https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/issues/1508 I'm getting around 8k words per second on the smallest Google Cloud instances. You couldn't run spaCy 1 on these instances (or on AWS lambda) due to memory usage problems,…
    comment by syllogism · 2017-11-08 · in SpaCy 2.0 released
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    SpaCy 2.0 released
    story by nl · 2017-11-08 · 32 comments
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    SpaCy v2.0 Released
    story by ybrent · 2017-11-07 · 0 comments
  20. …a small mountain of Cython code, and almost everything is working out of the box! Tests failing: * https://github.com/explosion/spaCy Confirmed working: * https://github.com/explosion/thinc * https://github.com/explosion/preshed *…
    comment by syllogism · 2017-10-05 · in PyPy v5.9 Released
  21. https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/blob/develop/examples/tra... You'll need to `pip install spacy-nightly` -- it uses spaCy 2 alpha. Until spaCy 2 stabilises it'll be a bit unstable, and unfortunately it's not in the docs yet. You'll…
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    Show HN: SpaCy v2 alpha. New 15MB neural model, multi-language NER, training API
    story by syllogism · 2017-06-06 · 0 comments
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    SpaCy: Multi-Task CNN for Parser, Tagger and NER
    story by jtraffic · 2017-05-13 · 0 comments
  24. spaCy going from AGPL to MIT was exciting to me but I see that actually happened in late 2015 https://github.com/explosion/spaCy
    comment by danso · 2016-12-22 · in Top Python libraries of 2016
  25. …the implementation of the first example model, the Parikh et al. (2016) textual entailment system: https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/tree/master/examples/kera... This got dropped during editing...Updating the post to make this more…
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    Decomposable neural attention for natural language inference in spaCy and Keras
    story by syllogism · 2016-11-05 · 0 comments
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    Natural language inference with decomposable attention in spaCy and Keras
    story by syllogism · 2016-11-01 · 0 comments