Python & NLP. Introduction to spaCy with Jupyter notebooks

In this workshop we are going to discover spaCy (https://spacy.io), an Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing library in Python. We will offer an overview of basic NLP, a (brief) introduction to Jupyter Notebooks and an introduction to spaCy through examples, followed by some hands-on exercises.

What to bring:

• This is a hands on workshop, so you will need your own laptop.

Requirements (python libraries):

• Clone the following GitHub repository and follow the installation instructions: https://github.com/pyladies-bcn/spacy-workshop

Please install all the libraries and models at home, and let us know if you have any problems so we are all ready the workshop day :)

Speaker: Laura Pérez-Mayos
Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Language: English

The meetup will be hosted by Holaluz, who will gently provide some snacks to help socialising after the workshop :)

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• What to bring
This is a hands on workshop, so you will need a laptop.

• Please remember our attendance policy: https://www.meetup.com/PyLadies-BCN/messages/81834174/.

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