spacy 2.0.17

v2.0.17: Fix NER segfaults and various small issues

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✨ New features and improvements

• Make max_length of input text inclusive.
• Raise error when setting overlapping entities as doc.ents.
• Improve French lemmatization and check if a word is in one of the regular lists specific to each part-of-speech tag.

🔴 Bug fixes

• Fix issue #1581, #1969, #1986: Fix out-of-bounds access in NER training that'd cause segmentation fault.
• Fix issue #2924: Prevent problem where displacy arcs would receive the same IDs in Jupyter notebooks, causing weirdly positioned arc labels.
• Fix issue #2948: Fix problem with symlink creation on Windows.

📖 Documentation and examples

• Fix various typos and inconsistencies.
• Update spaCy Universe with new projects.
• Add example script showing a fix-up rule for whitespace entities like '\n'.

👥 Contributors

Thanks to @digest0r, @BramVanroy, @grivaz, @wannaphongcom, @mikelibg, @danielhers, @frascuchon, @mauryaland and @cicorias for the pull requests and contributions.