Visualizing NER

To visualize named entities, we will again use displacy, the same visualization engine that we used for the visualization of dependency parses.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need spacy. If you don't have it installed, install it using the following command:

pip install spacy

How to do it…

We will use spacy to parse the sentence and then the displacy engine to visualize the named entities. The steps are as follows:

1. Import both spacy and displacy:

   import spacy
   from spacy import displacy

2. Load the spacy engine:

   nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')

3. Define the visualize function, which will create the dependency parse visualization:

   def visualize(doc):
       colors = {"ORG":"green", "PERSON":"yellow"}
       options = {"colors": colors}
       displacy.serve(doc, style='ent', options=options)

4. Define a...