Learn SPACY with Real Code Examples
Updated Nov 24, 2025
Learning Path
Learn Python basics
Understand NLP concepts: tokens, POS, entities
Practice using spaCy pipelines and pre-trained models
Explore custom components and rule-based matching
Integrate with ML/DL frameworks for NLP tasks
Skill Improvement Plan
Week 1: tokenization, lemmatization, and POS tagging
Week 2: NER and dependency parsing
Week 3: custom pipeline components and matcher usage
Week 4: integration with ML models and vector similarity
Week 5: large-scale text processing and deployment pipelines
Interview Questions
What are Doc, Token, and Span objects?
Explain spaCy pipelines and components
How do you train a custom NER model?
Difference between rule-based and ML-based pipelines
How to optimize spaCy for large-scale text processing?
Cheat Sheet
nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_sm') = load model
doc = nlp('text') = process text
token.text / token.pos_ = token attributes
[(ent.text, ent.label_) for ent in doc.ents] = extract entities
Matcher / PhraseMatcher = rule-based pattern matching
Books
Natural Language Processing with spaCy by Yuli Vasiliev
Mastering spaCy by Duygu Altinok
Hands-On NLP with Python and spaCy
Practical Natural Language Processing with spaCy
Industrial-Strength NLP with spaCy
Tutorials
spaCy official tutorials
DataCamp NLP with spaCy
YouTube spaCy courses
Medium blog tutorials on spaCy
MOOCs on industrial NLP pipelines
Official Docs
https://spacy.io/
https://spacy.io/usage
https://github.com/explosion/spaCy
Community Links
spaCy GitHub
StackOverflow spaCy tag
Reddit /r/LanguageTechnology
spaCy discussion forum
Online tutorials and blogs
Community Support
spaCy GitHub repository
StackOverflow spaCy tag
Reddit /r/LanguageTechnology
spaCy discussion forums
Online tutorials and MOOCs