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Consider using space instead of nltk for detecting names. #35

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brootware opened this issue May 26, 2022 · 0 comments
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Consider using space instead of nltk for detecting names. #35

brootware opened this issue May 26, 2022 · 0 comments
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current nltk library is way too slow iterating through part of speech tagging. Consider using Cython loops spacy instead to identify names. Reference articles below.
https://medium.com/huggingface/100-times-faster-natural-language-processing-in-python-ee32033bdced
https://www.activestate.com/blog/natural-language-processing-nltk-vs-spacy/

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@brootware brootware added the enhancement New feature or request label May 26, 2022
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