Python: Custom Named Entity Recognition with Spacy

Spacy is a Python library designed to help you build tools for processing and "understanding" text. It can be used to build information extraction or natural language understanding systems, or to pre-process text for deep learning. This talk will discuss how to use Spacy for Named Entity Recognition, which is a method that allows a program to determine that the Apple in the phrase "Apple stock had a big bump today" is a company and not a pie filling. We'll also cover how to add your own entities, train a custom recognizer, and deploying your model as a REST microservice. Attendee's should have a good grasp of Python but expertise with Spacy (https://spacy.io/) is not required.