You can install spaCy via conda or pip. Since I am in a conda environment, I will use the conda installation, as follows:
# !conda install -y spacy # !pip install spacy
Let's download the English language model provided by spaCy. We are going to use en_core_web_lg (the lg at the end stands for large). This means that this is the most comprehensive and best performing model that spaCy has released for general-purpose use.
You only need to do this once:
!python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg
If you run into any errors when you download this, you can use the smaller model instead.
For Windows Shell, you can use python -m spacy download en as the administrator. From a Linux Terminal, you can use sudo python -m spacy download ...
