spacy 1.10.0

v1.10.0: Alpha support for Thai & Russian, plus improvements and bug fixes

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⚠️ Important note: This is a bridge release that gets the current state of the v1.x branch published. Stay tuned for v2.0.

✨ Major features and improvements

• NEW: Alpha tokenization support for Thai and Russian.
• NEW: Alpha support for Japanese part-of-speech tagging.
• NEW: Dependency pattern-matching algorithm (see #1120).
• Add support for getting a lowest common ancestor matrix via Doc.get_lca_matrix().
• Improve capturing of English noun chunks.

🔴 Bug fixes

• Fix issue #1078: Simplify URL pattern.
• Fix issue #1174: Fix NER model loading bug and make sure JSON keys are loaded as strings.
• Fix issue #1291: Document correct JSON format for training.
• Fix issue #1292: Fix error when adding custom infix rules.
• Fix issue #1387: Ensure that lemmatizer respects exception rules.
• Fix issue #1410: Support single value for attribute list in Doc.to_scalar and Doc.to_array.

📖 Documentation and examples

• Document correct JSON format for training.
• Fix various typos and inconsistencies.

👥 Contributors

Thanks to @raphael0202, @gideonite, @delirious-lettuce, @polm, @kevinmarsh, @IamJeffG, @Vimos, @ericzhao28, @galaxyh, @hscspring, @wannaphongcom, @Wellan89, @kokes, @mdcclv, @ameyuuno, @ramananbalakrishnan, @Demfier, @johnhaley81, @mayukh18 and @jnothman for the pull requests and contributions.