v0.4.0: Falcon, sentiment analysis, summarization, backend refactoring

✨ New features and improvements

• NEW: Refactored to transition from backend- to model-centric architecture. Note: this is breaking, you'll need to adjust your configs (#176)
• NEW: Support for Falcon via HuggingFace (#179)
• NEW: Extract prompt examples from component initialization (#163)
• NEW: Summary task spacy.Summary.v1 (#181)
• NEW: Sentiment analysis task spacy.Sentiment.v1 (#200)
• More thorough check for label inconsistencies in span-related tasks NER, REL, SpanCat, TextCat (#183)
• Update langchain pin (#196)
• Make fewshot file reader more robust w.r.t. file formats (#184)

⚠️ Backwards incompatibilities

• Built-in support for MiniChain was dropped (#176)
• The switch from a backend- to a model-centric architecture (#176) requires light adjustments in your config. Check out the migration guide to see how to update your config

👥 Contributors

@bdura, @honnibal, @ines, @kabirkhan, @koaning, @rmitsch, @shadeMe, @svlandeg, @vin-ivar