Everything about SpaCy

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: SpaCyA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Fine-Tuning NER with spaCy for Transliterated Entities Found in Digital Collections From the Multilingual Persian GulfInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Mastering SpaCyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Enhanced geocoding precision for location inference of tweet text using spaCy, Nominatim and Google Maps. A comparative analysis of the influence of data selectionCited 40 times
5. Go sideways: Comparison of deep learning softwareA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Spark NLPA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Enhanced geocoding precision for location inference of tweet text using spaCy, Nominatim and Google Maps. A comparative analysis of the influence of data selection

  Helen Ngonidzashe Serere, Bernd Resch, Clemens Rudolf Havas · 2023 · PLOS ONE · 40 citations

• The possibility of improving automated calculation of measures of lexical richness for EFL writing: A comparison of the LCA, NLTK and SpaCy tools

  Ryan Spring, Matthew Johnson · 2022 · System · 31 citations

• Information Extraction Tasks based on BERT and SpaCy on Tourism Domain

  Chantana Chantrapornchai, Aphisit Tunsakul · 2021 · ECTI Transactions on Computer and Information Technology (ECTI-CIT) · 28 citations

• Improving spaCy dependency annotation and PoS tagging web service using independent NER services

  Nico Colic, Fabio Rinaldi · 2019 · Genomics & Informatics · 17 citations

• Data driven identification of international cutting edge science and technologies using SpaCy

  Chunqi Hu, Huaping Gong, Yiqing He · 2022 · PLOS ONE · 15 citations

• Implementation of NLP based automatic text summarization using spacy

  Nayana Cholanayakanahalli Prakash Prakash, Achyutha Prasad Narasimhaiah, Jagadeesh Bettakote Nagaraj · 2022 · International journal of health sciences · 10 citations

• Application of Named Entity Recognition via Twitter on SpaCy in Indonesian (Case Study : Power Failure in the Special Region of Yogyakarta)

  Rizka Maulida Yanti, Ibnu Santoso, Lya Hulliyyatus Suadaa · 2021 · Indonesian Journal of Information Systems · 9 citations

• RETRACTED: A Comparative Analysis of Pre-Processing Time in Summary of Hindi Language using Stanza and Spacy

  Atul Kumar, Vinodani Katiyar, Pankaj Kumar · 2021 · IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering · 6 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Fine-Tuning NER with spaCy for Transliterated Entities Found in Digital Collections From the Multilingual Persian Gulf

  Almazhan Kapan, Suphan Kirmizialtin, Rhythm Kukreja · 2022 · Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications · 6 citations

• RESUME SUMMARIZER AND JOB DESCRIPTION MATCHER USING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND SPACY

  India,GITAM University (deemed to be), Sai Tarun Boddu, Sujeeth Desu · 2023 · INTERANTIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT · 4 citations

• Enhanced Biomedical Named Entity Recognition Using SpaCy and BERT Models

  Manish Kumar, Pardeep Singh, Poonam Kashtriya · 2025 · Procedia Computer Science · 4 citations

• An Effective Sentimental Analysis Model Based on spaCy

  Yuanhao Shen · 2024 · Highlights in Science, Engineering and Technology · 4 citations

• Automated thematic dictionary creation using the web based on WordNet, Spacy, and Simhash

  Ahmet Toprak, Metin Turan · 2025 · Data and Information Management · 3 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Mastering SpaCyDuygu Altinok · 2021
• 📕Spacy and Santa Save ChristmasKaye Brady · 2019
• 📕Spacy SpacyDirk Walbrecker · 2010
• 📕SpaçiMaks Velo · 2010
• Natural Language Processing with Python and SpaCyYuli Vasiliev · 2020
• 📕Mastering SpaCyDuygu Altınok · 2021
• 📕Spací vadyRadka Denemarková · 2012
• 📕SpaCy HandbookRobert Johnson · 2025

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