The flair NLP library

flair: A very simple framework for state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP)

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A very simple framework for state-of-the-art NLP . Developed by Zalando Research. Please enjoy reading their article https://research.zalando.com/welcome/mission/research-projects/flair-nlp/.

Flair is:

  • A powerful NLP library. Flair allows you to apply our state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) models to your text, such as named entity recognition (NER), part-of-speech tagging (PoS), sense disambiguation and classification.
  • Multilingual. Thanks to the Flair community, we support a rapidly growing number of languages. We also now include ’ one model, many languages ’ taggers, i.e. single models that predict PoS or NER tags for input text in various languages.
  • A text embedding library. Flair has simple interfaces that allow you to use and combine different word and document embeddings, including our proposed Flair embeddings , BERT embeddings and ELMo embeddings.
  • A Pytorch NLP framework. Our framework builds directly on Pytorch, making it easy to train your own models and experiment with new approaches using Flair embeddings and classes.

Paper: Contextual String Embeddings for Sequence Labeling

COLING_2018.pdf (1.7 MB)