spacy 2.0.4

v2.0.4: Alpha support for Russian, various improvements & bug fixes

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✨ New features and improvements

• Alpha support for Russian via pymorphy2.
• Improve language data for Danish, Italian and Dutch.
• Add offsets_from_biluo_tags helper to convert BILUO notation to entity offsets.
• Use POS instead of TAG by default in displaCy, to prevent visualisation issues in languages with long combined tags (e.g. Italian or Dutch).
• Drop support for EOL Python 2.6 and 3.3.

🔴 Bug fixes

• Fix issue #1207: Fix Span.noun_chunks.
• Fix issue #1494: Handle sequential infixes in tokenizer rules.
• Fix issue #1587: Add note on attribute extension default arguments in docs.
• Fix issue #1599: Fix typo in documentation.
• Fix issue #1612: Ensure that Span.orth_ == Span.text.
• Fix issue #1617: Make entity_relations.py example Python 2 compatible and fix French test.
• Fix issue #1654: Fix off-by-one error in nlp.add_pipe when using after.
• Fix issue #1674: Set correct requirement string in spacy package.
• Fix issue with StringStore cleanup.

📖 Documentation and examples

• Update resources page with new spaCy extensions.
• Add "Unknown locale" error to troubleshooting guide.
• Always use python -m spacy for CLI commands again to prevent issues on Windows etc.
• Fix various typos and inconsistencies.

👥 Contributors

Thanks to @ligser, @pavillet, @yuukos, @GreenRiverRUS, @MartinoMensio, @raphael0202, @tokestermw, @fsonntag, @cclauss, @bdewilde, @markulrich, @sorenlind, @hugovk, @atomobianco, @twerkmeister, @mkdynamic and @jimregan for the pull requests and contributions.