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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by julienfr112 on Friday October 11, 2019 @03:40PM (#21227710)
Spacy, the new kid on the block, is in python...
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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by gillesjacobs on Friday October 11, 2019 @05:30PM (#21228676)
There are many more tasks in NLP than what SpaCy offers even though it is a nice API. I use SpaCy near daily, but academic research goes beyond NER, dep parsing and PoS tagging.

For instance, [1] is a tool for text-to-pictograph translation system I worked on. The core engine is entirely written in Perl 5.

[1] http://picto.ccl.kuleuven.be/index_engspa.php

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Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku by julienfr112 on Saturday October 12, 2019 @05:07AM (#21231635)
You are indeed taking your fair share of the trend ...
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