HuSpaCy is a spaCy library providing industrial-strength Hungarian language processing facilities through spaCy models. The released pipelines consist of a tokenizer, sentence splitter, lemmatizer, tagger (predicting morphological features as well), dependency parser and a named entity recognition module. Word and phrase embeddings are also available through spaCy's API. All models have high throughput, decent memory usage and close to state-of-the-art accuracy. A live demo is available here, model releases are published to Hugging Face Hub.

This repository contains material to build HuSpaCy and all of its models in a reproducible way.

To get started using the tool, first, we need to download one of the models. The easiest way to achieve this is to install huspacy (from PyPI) and then fetch a model through its API.

pip install huspacy

import huspacy

# Download the latest CPU optimized model
huspacy.download()

You can install the latest models directly from 🤗 Hugging Face Hub:

• CPU optimized large model: pip install https://huggingface.co/huspacy/hu_core_news_lg/resolve/main/hu_core_news_lg-any-py3-none-any.whl
• GPU optimized transformers model: pip install https://huggingface.co/huspacy/hu_core_news_trf/resolve/main/hu_core_news_trf-any-py3-none-any.whl

To speed up inference on GPUs, CUDA should be installed as described in https://spacy.io/usage.

Read more on the models here

HuSpaCy is fully compatible with spaCy's API, newcomers can easily get started with spaCy 101 guide.

Although HuSpacy models can be loaded with spacy.load(...), the tool provides convenience methods to easily access downloaded models.

# Load the model using spacy.load(...)
import spacy
nlp = spacy.load("hu_core_news_lg")

# Load the default large model (if downloaded)
import huspacy
nlp = huspacy.load()

# Load the model directly as a module
import hu_core_news_lg
nlp = hu_core_news_lg.load()

To process texts, you can simply call the loaded model (i.e. the nlp callable object)

doc = nlp("Csiribiri csiribiri zabszalma - négy csillag közt alszom ma.")

As HuSpaCy is built on spaCy, the returned doc document contains all the annotations given by the pipeline components.

API Documentation is available in our website.

We provide several pretrained models:

1. hu_core_news_lg is a CNN-based large model which achieves a good balance between accuracy and processing speed. This default model provides tokenization, sentence splitting, part-of-speech tagging (UD labels w/ detailed morphosyntactic features), lemmatization, dependency parsing and named entity recognition and ships with pretrained word vectors.
2. hu_core_news_trf is built on huBERT and provides the same functionality as the large model except the word vectors. It comes with much higher accuracy in the price of increased computational resource usage. We suggest using it with GPU support.
3. hu_core_news_md greatly improves on hu_core_news_lg's throughput by loosing some accuracy. This model could be a good choice when processing speed is crucial.
4. hu_core_news_trf_xl is an experimental model built on XLM-RoBERTa-large. It provides the same functionality as the hu_core_news_trf model, however it comes with slightly higher accuracy in the price of significantly increased computational resource usage. We suggest using it with GPU support.

HuSpaCy's model versions follows spaCy's versioning scheme.

A demo of the models is available at Hugging Face Spaces.

To read more about the model's architecture we suggest reading the relevant sections from spaCy's documentation.

If you use HuSpaCy or any of its models, please cite it as:

@InProceedings{HuSpaCy:2023,
    author= {"Orosz, Gy{\"o}rgy and Szab{\'o}, Gerg{\H{o}} and Berkecz, P{\'e}ter and Sz{\'a}nt{\'o}, Zsolt and Farkas, Rich{\'a}rd"},
    editor= {"Ek{\v{s}}tein, Kamil and P{\'a}rtl, Franti{\v{s}}ek and Konop{\'i}k, Miloslav"},
    title = {{"Advancing Hungarian Text Processing with HuSpaCy: Efficient and Accurate NLP Pipelines"}},
    booktitle = {{"Text, Speech, and Dialogue"}},
    year = "2023",
    publisher = {{"Springer Nature Switzerland"}},
    address = {{"Cham"}},
    pages = "58--69",
    isbn = "978-3-031-40498-6"
}

@InProceedings{HuSpaCy:2021,
  title = {{HuSpaCy: an industrial-strength Hungarian natural language processing toolkit}},
  booktitle = {{XVIII. Magyar Sz{\'a}m{\'\i}t{\'o}g{\'e}pes Nyelv{\'e}szeti Konferencia}},
  author = {Orosz, Gy{\"o}rgy and Sz{\' a}nt{\' o}, Zsolt and Berkecz, P{\' e}ter and Szab{\' o}, Gerg{\H o} and Farkas, Rich{\' a}rd},
  location = {{Szeged}},
  pages = "59--73",
  year = {2022},
}

For feature requests, issues and bugs please use the GitHub Issue Tracker. Otherwise, reach out to us in the Discussion Forum.

HuSpaCy is implemented in the SzegedAI team, coordinated by Orosz György in the Hungarian AI National Laboratory, MILAB program.

This library is released under the Apache 2.0 License

Trained models have their own license (CC BY-SA 4.0) as described on the models page.