textacy is a Python library for performing a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, built on the high-performance spacy library. With the fundamentals --- tokenization, part-of-speech tagging, dependency parsing, etc. ---delegated to another library, textacy focuses on the tasks that come before and follow after.

• Provide a convenient entry point and interface to one or many documents, with the core processing delegated to spaCy
• Stream text, json, csv, spaCy binary, and other data to and from disk
• Download and explore a variety of included datasets with both text content and metadata, from Congressional speeches to historical literature to Reddit comments
• Clean and normalize raw text, before analyzing it
• Access and filter basic linguistic elements, such as words, ngrams, and noun chunks; extract named entities, acronyms and their definitions, and key terms
• Flexibly tokenize and vectorize documents and corpora, then train, interpret, and visualize topic models using LSA, LDA, or NMF methods
• Compare strings, sets, and documents by a variety of similarity metrics
• Calculate common text statistics, including Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, SMOG Index, and multilingual Flesch Reading Ease

... and more!

• PyPi project: https://pypi.org/project/textacy
• Source code: https://github.com/chartbeat-labs/textacy
• Documentation: https://chartbeat-labs.github.io/textacy

Note: Docs used to be hosted on ReadTheDocs, but the builds stopped working many months ago, and now those docs are out-of-date. This is unfortunate, especially since ReadTheDocs allows for multiple versions while GitHub Pages does not. I'll keep trying on ReadTheDocs; if the build issues ever get resolved, I'll switch the docs back.

Howdy, y'all. 👋

• Burton DeWilde (<burton@chartbeat.com>)