{"id":1509,"date":"2022-11-10T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:07:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:07:31","slug":"how-to-configure-a-spacy-ner-annotator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/how-to-configure-a-spacy-ner-annotator\/","title":{"rendered":"How to configure a Spacy NER annotator?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A prepackaged <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/spacy.io\/universe\/project\/video-spacys-ner-model-alt\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/spacy.io\/universe\/project\/video-spacys-ner-model-alt\" target=\"_blank\">Spacy NER<\/a> component is available to extract Named Entities from a piece of text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Kairntech is well suited to start your own entity extraction models from scratch, for some common scenarios, you don&#8217;t have to do that but can instead rely on prepackaged named entity recognition models that do the job your you. If you need entities such a person names, locations or company\/organisation names, the Spacy NER component may be the solution for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to use it, the following steps need to be performed: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to the&nbsp;<em>Processing<\/em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>view<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create a new pipeline. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"637\" src=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-99-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5394\" style=\"width:612px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-99-1.png 900w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-99-1-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-99-1-768x544.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Create a processing component and select<strong>&nbsp;Off-the-shelf annotator<\/strong>&nbsp;in the drop-down list<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"905\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-105.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5398\" style=\"width:605px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-105.png 905w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-105-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-105-768x457.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Select <em><strong>Spacy named-entity-recognition<\/strong> <\/em>component<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"902\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-106.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5400\" style=\"width:644px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-106.png 902w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-106-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-106-768x568.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Adjust available&nbsp;<strong>parameters&nbsp;<\/strong>with the settings icon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-107-1024x461.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-107-1024x461.png 1024w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-107-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-107-768x346.png 768w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-107-1536x691.png 1536w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-107.png 1802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Save the pipeline, <a href=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/how-to-test-a-model\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/how-to-test-a-model\/\">test in the Test Page<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/how-to-automatically-analyse-new-documents\/\">annotate automatically your documents<\/a>&nbsp;by selecting your pipeline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-108-1024x467.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-108-1024x467.png 1024w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-108-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-108-768x350.png 768w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-108-1536x701.png 1536w, https:\/\/kairntech.com\/doc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/image-108.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prepackaged Spacy NER component is available to extract Named Entities from a piece of text. 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