spacy Can't find model 'en_core_web_sm' on windows 10 and Python 3.5.3 :: Anaconda custom (64-bit)

Question

what is difference between spacy.load(\'en_core_web_sm\') and spacy.load(\'en\')? This link explains different model sizes. But i am still not clea

Answer 1

I had also same issue as I couldnt load module using '''spacy.load()''' You can follow below steps to solve this on windows:

1. download using !python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
2. import en_core_web_sm as import en_core_web_sm
3. load using en_core_web_sm.load() to some variable

Complete code will be:

python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

import en_core_web_sm

nlp = en_core_web_sm.load()

Answer 2

As for Windows based Anaconda,

1- Open Anaconda Prompt

2- Activate your environment. Ex: active myspacyenv

3- pip install https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.2.0/en_core_web_sm-2.2.0.tar.gz

4- python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

5-Open Jupyter Notebook ex: active myspacyenv and then jupyter notebook on Anaconda Promt

import spacy spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')

and it will run peacefully!

Answer 3

The below worked for me :

import en_core_web_sm

nlp = en_core_web_sm.load()

Answer 4

Open command prompt or terminal and execute the below code:

pip3 install https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-2.2.0/en_core_web_sm-2.2.0.tar.gz

Execute the below chunk in your Jupiter notebook.

import spacy

nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')

Hope the above code works for all:)

Answer 5

Initially I downloaded two en packages using following statements in anaconda prompt.

python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

But, I kept on getting linkage error and finally running below command helped me to establish link and solved error.

python -m spacy download en

Answer 6

import spacy

nlp = spacy.load('/opt/anaconda3/envs/NLPENV/lib/python3.7/site-packages/en_core_web_sm/en_core_web_sm-2.3.1')

Try giving the absolute path of the package with the version as shown in the image.

It works perfectly fine.