By default FCoref downloads and loads the en_core_web_sm model.
As I understand, FCoref needs to have a tokenizer ready in case it gets non-tokenized text, so if no nlp object is passed you
retrieve the nlp object from the web.
Since we (and maybe other future users) don't intend to pass non-tokenized text to the model object, there is no need to download this model from the web.
Can you please allow this option?
For now we use the following workaround: FCoref(device=device, nlp="DUMMY") which prevents the from fastcoref to download the model
By default FCoref downloads and loads the en_core_web_sm model. As I understand, FCoref needs to have a tokenizer ready in case it gets non-tokenized text, so if no nlp object is passed you retrieve the nlp object from the web.
Since we (and maybe other future users) don't intend to pass non-tokenized text to the model object, there is no need to download this model from the web. Can you please allow this option? For now we use the following workaround:
FCoref(device=device, nlp="DUMMY")
which prevents the from fastcoref to download the modelthanks! @shon-otmazgin @ariecattan