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Machine Learning for Finance

You're reading from   Machine Learning for Finance Principles and practice for financial insiders

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789136364
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jannes Klaas Jannes Klaas
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Machine Learning for Finance
Contributors
Preface
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An introductory guide to spaCy


spaCy is a library for advanced NLP. The library, which is pretty fast to run, also comes with a range of useful tools and pretrained models that make NLP easier and more reliable. If you've installed Kaggle, you won't need to download spaCy, as it comes preinstalled with all the models.

To use spaCy locally, you will need to install the library and download its pretrained models separately.

To install the library, we simply need to run the following command:

$ pip install -U spacy
$ python -m spacy download en

Note

Note: This chapter makes use of the English language models, but more are available. Most features are available in English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Dutch. Entity recognition is available for many more languages through the multi-language model.

The core of spaCy is made up of the Doc and Vocab classes. A Doc instance contains one document, including its text, tokenized version, and recognized entities. The Vocab class, meanwhile...

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