spacy_hunspell: Hunspell extension for spaCy

This package uses the spaCy 2.0 extensions to add Hunspell support for spellchecking. Inspired from this discussion here.

Usage

Add the spaCyHunSpell to the spaCy pipeline.

import spacy
from spacy_hunspell import spaCyHunSpell

nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm')
hunspell = spaCyHunSpell(nlp, 'mac')
nlp.add_pipe(hunspell)

doc = nlp('I can haz cheezeburger.')
haz = doc[2]
haz._.hunspell_spell  # False
haz._.hunspell_suggest  # ['ha', 'haze', 'hazy', 'has', 'hat', 'had', 'hag', 'ham', 'hap', 'hay', 'haw', 'ha z']

There are two default locations for Hunspell dictionaries for each platform (mac, and linux). If there are not you can specify the two files manually.

hunspell = spaCyHunSpell(nlp, 'mac')
hunspell = spaCyHunSpell(nlp, 'linux')
hunspell = spaCyHunSpell(nlp, ('en_US.dic', 'en_US.aff'))

You can find the English dictionary files here.

Installation

You can install the package directly if you have the prerequisites to install Hunspell. If it errors out, manually install Hunspell (see below).

pip install spacy_hunspell

Install Hunspell on Linux.

sudo apt-get install libhunspell-dev

Install Hunspell on Mac.

brew install hunspell

Install the Python bindings for Hunspell (pyhunspell):

pip install hunspell

For Mac, you may have to add a few steps before pip installing:

export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/include/hunspell
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libhunspell-{VERSION_NUMBER}.a /usr/local/lib/libhunspell.a

For Mac 10.13 High Sierra, you may have to set the C flags (issue).

CFLAGS=$(pkg-config --cflags hunspell) LDFLAGS=$(pkg-config --libs hunspell) pip install hunspell

Install the rest of the requirements.

pip install -r requirements.txt

And download at least one spaCy model.

python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm