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✨ Major features and improvements
- NEW: Experimental
convertandmodelcommands to convert files to spaCy's JSON format for training, and initialise a new model and its data directory. - Updated language data for Spanish and Portuguese.
🔴 Bug fixes
- Error messages now show the new download commands if no model is loaded.
- The
packagecommand now works correctly and doesn't fail when creating files. - Fix issue #693: Improve rules for detecting noun chunks.
- Fix issue #758: Adding labels now doesn't cause
EntityRecognizertransition bug. - Fix issue #862:
labelkeyword argument is now handled correctly indoc.merge(). - Fix issue #891: Tokens containing
/infixes are now split by the tokenizer. - Fix issue #898: Dependencies are now deprojectivized correctly.
- Fix issue #910: NER models with new labels now saved correctly, preventing memory errors.
- Fix issue #934, #946: Symlink paths are now handled correctly on Windows, preventing
invalid switcherror. - Fix issue #947: Hebrew module is now added to
setup.pyand__init__.py. - Fix issue #948: Contractions are now lemmatized correctly.
- Fix issue #957: Use
regexmodule to avoid back-tracking on URL regex.
📖 Documentation and examples
- Documentation for new
convertandmodelcommands. - Update troubleshooting guide with
--no-cache-direrror resulting from outdated pip version and file name shadowing model problem. - Fix various typos and inconsistencies.
👥 Contributors
Thanks to @ericzhao28, @Gregory-Howard, @kinow, @jreeter, @mamoit, @kumaranvpl and @dvsrepo for the pull requests!