I am using spacy in google colab to build an NER model for which I have downloaded the spaCy 'en_core_web_lg' model using
import spacy.cli
spacy.cli.download("en_core_web_lg")
and I get a message saying
✔ Download and installation successful
You can now load the model via spacy.load('en_core_web_lg')
However then when i try to load the model
nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_lg')
the following error is printed:
OSError: [E050] Can't find model 'en_core_web_lg'. It doesn't seem to be a shortcut link, a Python package or a valid path to a data directory.
Could anyone help me with this problem?
use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+M .
The model (en_core_web_lg) is the largest English model of spaCy with size 788 MB. There are smaller models in English and some other models for other languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Greek). Step-3: Import Library and Load the Model.
Running
import spacy.cli
spacy.cli.download("en_core_web_lg")
nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_lg")
shouldn't yield any errors anymore with recent spaCy versions.
If running the code still gives errors, you should be all set with running in one cell (takes a while, but gives you visual feedback about progress, differently from spacy.cli
)
!python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg
Then, *** restart the colab runtime *** via
Runtime > Restart runtime
, orCtrl+M .
After that, executing
import spacy
nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_lg')
should work flawlessly.
In Google Colab Notebooks, you should import the model as a package.
However you download and install the model:
!pip install <model_s3_url> # tar.gz file e.g. from release notes like https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases//tag/en_core_web_lg-2.3.1
!pip install en_core_web_lg
import spacy
you don't have permission in Colab to load the model with normal spacy usage:
nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_lg") # not via packages
nlp = spacy.load("/path/to/en_core_web_lg") #not via paths
nlp = spacy.load("en") # nor via shortcut links
spacy.load()
Instead, import the model and load it directly:
import en_core_web_lg
nlp = en_core_web_lg.load()
Then use as directed:
doc = nlp("This is a sentence. Soon, it will be knowledge.")
It seems the best answer is on this thread: How to install models/download packages on Google Colab?
import spacy.cli
spacy.cli.download("en_core_web_lg")
import en_core_web_lg
nlp = en_core_web_lg.load()
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