SpaCy OSError: Can't find model 'en'

Question

even though I downloaded the model it cannot load it

[jalal@goku entity-sentiment-analysis]$ which python
/scratch/sjn/anaconda/bin/python
[jalal@goku entity         


        

Answer 1

By using sudo python ... you install the model for a different python interpreter than your local one. In fact, it says in your log that the spaCy model is installed to /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/ instead of /scratch/sjn/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/.

Try running python -m spacy download en and it should install the model to the correct directory.