spacy 2.1.8

v2.1.8: Usability improvements and Serbian alpha tokenization

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✨ New features and improvements

• NEW: Alpha tokenization support for Serbian
• Improve language data for Urdu.
• Support installing and loading model packages in the same session.

🔴 Bug fixes

• Fix issue #4002: Make PhraseMatcher work as expected for NORM attribute.
• Fix issue #4063: Improve docs on Matcher attributes.
• Fix issue #4068: Make Korean work as expected on Python 2.7.
• Fix issue #4069: Add validate option to EntityRuler.
• Fix issue #4074: Raise error if annotation dict in simple training style has unexpected keys.
• Fix issue #4081: Fix typo in pyproject.toml.
• Fix handling of keyword arguments in Language.evaluate.

📖 Documentation and examples

• Improve Matcher attribute docs.
• Fix various typos and inconsistencies.

👥 Contributors

Thanks to @akornilo, @mirfan899, @veer-bains, @seppeljordan, @Pavle992, @svlandeg, @jenojp and @adrianeboyd for the pull requests and contributions.