Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Finally, the validation_split parameter is used to evaluate the experiment."

A block of code is set as follows:

import spacy
nlp = spacy.load("en_subwords_wiki_lg")

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

wget  https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-spaCy/blob/main/Chapter08/data/Reviews.zip

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "The following diagram illustrates the distance between dog and cat and the distance between dog, canine terrier, and cat:"

Tips or important notes

Appear like this.