DaCy and Spacy

by Kenneth Enevoldsen | 2021-05-16

Agenda

• What is SpaCy and why should you care?

  • Speed and multitasking
  • Integration
  • Costomicability

• Loading and using DaCy

  • example use
  • Visualizing predictions
  • expanding SpaCy

Who am I?

• PhD Student

  • Aarhus Psychiatry
  • Genetics
  • Detecting spread of misinformation and fake news

• JHN Processor

• Teaching NLP, programming and stats

What is SpaCy

• Production-friendly NLP tools
• Open-source
• More than 64 languages (more if you include extensions)
• Easily extensible

Speed and multitasking

• Multitask by default
• mostly written in Cython
• Efficient data structures
• Avoid copying data

Integration

• streamlit
• Weight and Biases
• Tensor frameworks: Tensorflow, mxnet, Torch
• Stanza
• Huggingface transformers

Example

Using DaCy and SpaCy