spacy 1.8.1

v1.8.1: Saving, loading and training bug fixes

on Python PyPI

We've been delighted to see spaCy growing so much over the last few months. Before the v1.0 release, we asked for your feedback, which has been incredibly helpful in improving the library. As we're getting closer to v2.0 we hope you'll take a few minutes to fill out the survey, to help us understand how you're using the library, and how it can be better.

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🔴 Bug fixes

• Fix issue #988: Ensure noun chunks can't be nested.
• Fix issue #991: convert command now uses Python 2/3 compatible json.dumps.
• Fix issue #995: Use regex library for non-latin characters to simplify punctuation rules.
• Fix issue #999: Fix parser and NER model saving and loading.
• Fix issue #1001: Add SPACE to Spanish tag map.
• Fix issue #1008: train command now works correctly if used without dev_data.
• Fix issue #1009: Language.save_to_directory() now converts strings to pathlib paths.

📖 Documentation and examples

• Fix issue #889, #967: Correct typos in lightning tour and pos_tag.py examples.
• Add Language.save_to_directory() method to API docs.
• Fix various typos and inconsistencies.

👥 Contributors

Thanks to @dvsrepo, @beneyal and @oroszgy for the pull requests!