haystack/releasenotes/notes/named-entity-extractor-component-8fd647ee748892ca.yaml

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features:
  - |
    Added a new extractor component, namely NamedEntityExtractor. This component accepts a list of Documents as its input - the raw text in the documents are annotated by the extractor and the annotations are stored in the document's meta dictionary (under the key named_entities).

    The component is designed to support multiple NER backends, and the current implementations support two at the moment: Hugging Face and spaCy. These two backends implement support for any HF/spaCy model that supports token classification/NER respectively.
feat: Add `NamedEntityExtractor`component (#6689) * feat: Add `NamedEntityExtractor`component This component accepts a list of `Document`s which it annotates with named entities. The annotations are stored in the `meta` dictionary of each `Document` under a specific key. The component currently support two backends for the annotation models: Hugging Face `transformers` and spaCy. * Address comments * Expand release note * Add the `[torch]` extra package specifier to the lazy import * Remove dead code --------- Co-authored-by: Massimiliano Pippi <mpippi@gmail.com> 2024-01-09 17:56:20 +01:00			`---`
			`features:`
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			`Added a new extractor component, namely NamedEntityExtractor. This component accepts a list of Documents as its input - the raw text in the documents are annotated by the extractor and the annotations are stored in the document's meta dictionary (under the key named_entities).`

			`The component is designed to support multiple NER backends, and the current implementations support two at the moment: Hugging Face and spaCy. These two backends implement support for any HF/spaCy model that supports token classification/NER respectively.`