Advanced NLP for Diverse Languages

Developing natural language processing (NLP) pipelines for languages other than English remains a challenge. Since its release in 2015, spaCy has become one of the most popular open-source libraries for applied natural language processing in Python, enabling a wide range of applications across different use cases and domains. I this talk, I discuss spaCy's philosophy for modern NLP, its extensible design and new recent features to enable the development of advanced natural language processing pipelines for typologically diverse languages.