Change default tagger from NLTK to spacy?

slanglab / phrasemachine

Quickly extract multi-word phrases from a corpus

http://slanglab.cs.umass.edu/phrasemachine/

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Change default tagger from NLTK to spacy? #22

Open AbeHandler opened 4 years ago

AbeHandler commented 4 years ago

PM users NLTK to provide POS tags (and introduces an NLTK dependency). Should this be replaced with spacy? My sense is that spacy will be better maintained long term than NLTK. And so should be the default going forward.