'en' shortcut link issues with loading spacy

[gracefulghost31]

• On my Jupyer Notebook, when I try loading spacy by using the following command: nlp = spacy.load('en')

• I get an error message: OSError: [E050] Can't find model 'en'. It doesn't seem to be a shortcut link, a Python package or a valid path to a data directory.

• I've read through the issues and StackOverflow (https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/issues/1721) (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54334304/spacy-cant-find-model-en-core-web-sm-on-windows-10-and-python-3-5-3-anacon)

• and tried the following:

'pip install - U spacy

import en_core_web_sm en_core_web_sm.load()

!python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")

conda install -c conda-forge spacy

• Each time I re-run the code to use spacy, I get the same error message.

• Environment Information:

  : ============================== Info about spaCy ============================== spaCy version 2.2.3 Location C:\Users\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\spacy Platform Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0 Python version 3.7.4 Models

[gracefulghost31]

To update, following this StackOverflow thread (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54334304/spacy-cant-find-model-en-core-web-sm-on-windows-10-and-python-3-5-3-anacon), I tried:

python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm python -m spacy link en_core_web_sm en

python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg python -m spacy link en_core_web_lg en

• Downloading both lg and sm work successfully but linking throws me an error: (base) C:\Users\>python -m spacy link en_core_web_sm en You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation. ✘ Couldn't link model to 'en' Creating a symlink in spacy/data failed. Make sure you have the required permissions and try re-running the command as admin, or use a virtualenv. You can still import the model as a module and call its load() method, or create the symlink manually.

[svlandeg]

Have you tried following the instructions in that last error message?

Also, it is not really necessary to use the en abbreviation. You should be able to just run spacy.load('en_core_web_lg') or spacy.load('en_core_web_sm') and work with that. We will probably drop the usage of these symlinks such as en in future versions of spaCy anyway.

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