/spacy-test

Primary LanguagePython

Spacy - NER

Enviroment Setup

1. Create a Virtual Environment

In the terminal, navigate to the root folder of the project and run:

(Windows)
python -m venv **venv**
.\\**venv**\Scripts\activate
(Linux - Ubuntu)
sudo apt install python3.10-venv
python3 -m venv **venv**
source **venv**/bin/activate

After executing the commands, the command prompt will show the name of the virtual environment in parentheses (venv)

2. Install Spacy Dependencies

With the venv activated, run the commands:

(Windows)
python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip
(Linux - Ubuntu)
pip install --upgrade pip
(All)
pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
pip install -U spacy *pygls*
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

After that, spaCy should be configured correctly.

  • Install the 'spaCy' extension for VS Code.
  • Test if all the configurations were installed correctly:
python -m spacy info

3. Testing

Create a file named teste.py to test the model loading and include the following code

import spacy

nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")
doc = nlp("Apple is looking at buying U.K. startup for $1 billion")
for token in doc:
    print(token.text, token.pos_, token.dep_)

Usefull Commands

  • deactivate: stop the terminal
  • .\venv\Scripts\activate (run terminal - Windows)
  • source venv/bin/activate (run terminal - Linux Ubuntu)