Languages
In addition to the standard spaCy FrenchLanguage (fr), EDS-NLP offers a new language better fit
for French clinical documents: EDSLanguage (eds). Additionally, the EDSLanguage document creation should be around 5-6 times faster than
the fr tokenizer. The main differences lie in the tokenization process.
A comparison of the two tokenization methods is demonstrated below:
| Example | FrenchLanguage | EDSLanguage |
|---|---|---|
ACR 5 |
[ACR5] |
[ACR, 5] |
26.5 |
[26.5] |
[26, ., 5] |
26.5/ |
[26.5/] |
[26, ., 5, /] |
\n \n CONCLUSION |
[\n \n, CONCLUSION] |
[\n, \n, CONCLUSION] |
l'artère |
[l', artère] |
[l', artère] (same) |
To instantiate one of the two languages, you can call the spacy.blank method.
import spacy
nlp = spacy.blank("eds")
import spacy
nlp = spacy.blank("fr")