spaCY is a powerful open-source NLP library developed by Explosion AI. It was developed in 2015 and has a large community of supporters. It supports PyTorch, TensorFlow, and other ML frameworks. Trained pipelines and pre-trained transformers like BERT are included.

Project Background

• Library: spaCY
• Author: Explosion
• Initial Release: June 2015
• Type: Library for text processing. NLP.
• License: MIT License
• Language: Python and Cython 
• GitHub: spaCY with 21k+ stars and 555+ contributors
• Twitter: spaCY
• Supports: 60+ languages 
• GitHub Discussions: spaCY

Features

• Powerful Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Comes with pre-trained pipelines
• Incorporates neural network models for tagging, parsing, text classification, entity recognition, and more
•  Includes language-specific rules for tokenization