6 engineers on Hacker News describe using spaCy first-hand: 3 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Overall, there's no open-source high accuracy NER model that you can use out-of-a-box”
regret · personal · artembugara · 2021-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“spaCy's NER was pretty close to the (paid) service we were using (IBM) to the point we ditched IBM.”
endorse · production · Xenoamorphous · 2021-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use spaCy at work for (mostly) news articles as well. We've been pretty impressed with it overall”
endorse · production · pantsforbirds · 2021-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I found NER models provided by spaCy to have a low accuracy while working with real data”
mixed · personal · artembugara · 2021-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using it heavily over the past few months, using it almost exclusively for feature extraction now.”
endorse · production · 0.25 yr · czep · 2016-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“All the packages I was using (like Spacy) required later ROCm almost immediately.”
neutral · personal · frognumber · 2023-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?