I really appreciate how accessible SpaCy has made NLP work but their NER is definitely low accuracy. Where stem/lem felt critical to successful NLP processing

I really appreciate how accessible SpaCy has made NLP work but their NER is definitely low accuracy. Where stem/lem felt critical to successful NLP processing a few years ago, we've found stem/lem work to be much less important for downstream tasks when transformer based models are involved. For topic extraction stem/lem still seems to do a lot to improve accuracy and for rules based approaches I can still see how it would facilitate more efficient processing at scale. I'd be curious to hear your experience fine tuning and/or training new models after stem/lem processing with transformers, we've admittedly done little testing to see how transformers actually performer if properly tuned to post-processed data.