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Demos: https://demos.explosion.ai/displacy-ent/ https://demos.explosion.ai/displacy-ent/ The English neural network named entity model is a huge improvement ov

Demos: https://demos.explosion.ai/displacy-ent/ https://demos.explosion.ai/displacy-ent/ The English neural network named entity model is a huge improvement over the v1 model. However, the training data is still all from 2010, so it makes some notable errors. We're working on improved training data, using our annotation tool Prodigy (https://prodi.gy https://prodi.gy). The NER for the other languages is trained on "silver standard" data from Wikipedia, so the quality is much less consistent, especially if you're working with social media text or "chat bot"-type inputs.

wodenokoto 9y ago
I'm a bit confused as to what SpaCys revenue model is. Didn't it use to be free community edition / paid enterprise support model?
- syllogism 9y ago
  The very first release was under a dual AGPL/commercial license. This was bad. It prevents open-source developers from building on top of it, and it discourages people from getting in touch. We bootstrapped the company by doing consulting, and now we're releasing products adjacent to spaCy. We've had a great response to our annotation tool Prodigy, which is currently in free beta: https://prodi.gy https://prodi.gy . The license model for Prodigy is pretty simple: permanent per-seat licenses, with pricing that compares pretty favourably to other developer tools. We're looking forward to releasing some other offerings alongside spaCy. We don't like to say too much because timelines are tough --- we don't want to release something half-finished to stick to a schedule. The Explosion AI mailing list is the best way to stay in the loop.
  - JustFinishedBSG 9y ago
    > The license model for Prodigy is pretty simple: permanent per-seat licenses, with pricing that compares pretty favourably to other developer tools. Can you be more precise ? Because I don't want to invest time in a tool to discover that I can't afford it months later ( having a research student budget and all, i.e my "budget" is my own money ). :(
    - syllogism 9y ago
      The license for an individual developer will be a few hundred dollars --- sorry for the vagueness. We'll be ready to release official pricing soon. For research students, we think your institution should be covering you! We'll be offering an academic subscription, so research institutions can pay a yearly flat fee to have all staff and students covered.
rplnt 9y ago
I've tried a simple sentence > How are you this fine morning? and didn't recognize anything - I was expecting "you" and "(this) morning" to be highlighted - but perhaps I misunderstood the example. This https://demos.explosion.ai/displacy/ https://demos.explosion.ai/displacy/ looks really nice though. Just the UX of horizontal scrolling using mouse is horrible (once you figure it out).
JPKab 9y ago
I can't begin to tell you how excited I am about this. I love v1, and can't wait to finally use v2. Thanks to you and your team for all the hard work!
tanilama 9y ago
Amazing tool! Thanks for the effort! Curious enough, did u guys train your model on your own dataset or public dataset? Didn't find too much information about the specifics in the documentation
ChristianGeek 9y ago
What’s the difference between SpaCy and Spacey? SpaCy recognizes the word “no.”
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wodenokoto 9y ago

I'm a bit confused as to what SpaCys revenue model is. Didn't it use to be free community edition / paid enterprise support model?

syllogism 9y ago
The very first release was under a dual AGPL/commercial license. This was bad. It prevents open-source developers from building on top of it, and it discourages people from getting in touch. We bootstrapped the company by doing consulting, and now we're releasing products adjacent to spaCy. We've had a great response to our annotation tool Prodigy, which is currently in free beta: https://prodi.gy https://prodi.gy . The license model for Prodigy is pretty simple: permanent per-seat licenses, with pricing that compares pretty favourably to other developer tools. We're looking forward to releasing some other offerings alongside spaCy. We don't like to say too much because timelines are tough --- we don't want to release something half-finished to stick to a schedule. The Explosion AI mailing list is the best way to stay in the loop.
- JustFinishedBSG 9y ago
  > The license model for Prodigy is pretty simple: permanent per-seat licenses, with pricing that compares pretty favourably to other developer tools. Can you be more precise ? Because I don't want to invest time in a tool to discover that I can't afford it months later ( having a research student budget and all, i.e my "budget" is my own money ). :(
  - syllogism 9y ago
    The license for an individual developer will be a few hundred dollars --- sorry for the vagueness. We'll be ready to release official pricing soon. For research students, we think your institution should be covering you! We'll be offering an academic subscription, so research institutions can pay a yearly flat fee to have all staff and students covered.

rplnt 9y ago

I've tried a simple sentence > How are you this fine morning? and didn't recognize anything - I was expecting "you" and "(this) morning" to be highlighted - but perhaps I misunderstood the example. This https://demos.explosion.ai/displacy/ https://demos.explosion.ai/displacy/ looks really nice though. Just the UX of horizontal scrolling using mouse is horrible (once you figure it out).

JPKab 9y ago

I can't begin to tell you how excited I am about this. I love v1, and can't wait to finally use v2. Thanks to you and your team for all the hard work!

tanilama 9y ago

Amazing tool! Thanks for the effort! Curious enough, did u guys train your model on your own dataset or public dataset? Didn't find too much information about the specifics in the documentation

ChristianGeek 9y ago

What’s the difference between SpaCy and Spacey? SpaCy recognizes the word “no.”

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