nlp-traininglabs

Environment Setup Guides

There are few important steps in setting up your environment:

Step 1: Install Anaconda

1. Go to Anaconda Official Website and download the latest Anaconda Individual Edition installer with Python 3.x.

2. Open the installer and follow all the setup instruction.

3. For more setup information, please refer to Anaconda Setup Guideline.

Step 2: Clone nlp-traininglabs Repository

• If you have git installed:

1. Navigate to the folder where you want to keep the traininglabs.

2. Press shift + right click and select Git Bash here.

3. Enter the following command to clone nlp-traininglabs to your local drive.

   git clone https://github.com/skymind-talent/nlp-traininglabs.git

• If you do not have git installed

1. Go the nlp-traininglabs github repository.

2. Download the repository as zip file.

3. Unzip the file to the folder where you want to keep the traininglabs.

Step 3: Install NLP-Labs Dependencies

1. Open Anaconda Prompt.

2. Navigate to your NLP-Labs root folder, e.g:

   cd {enter your path here}\nlp-traininglabs

3. Run the following command to create new conda environment:

   conda env create -f environment.yml

4. Press y to confirm installation.

5. Your installation should be completed.

6. Activate nlp-labs environment:

   conda activate nlp-labs

Step 4: Install Python Packages

1. Open Anaconda Prompt and activate nlp-labs environment.

2. Navigate to NLP-Labs root folder.

3. Run the following command to install required modules for this training lab:

   pip install -r requirement.txt

4. Wait for the download and installation to complete.

Step 5: Install Spacy Language Models

Throughout this training labs, we will mainly using these language models:

• en_core_web_sm

• de_core_news_sm

• en_core_web_lg

• fr_core_news_lg

To install these modules, run the following commands:

> python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

> python -m spacy download de_core_news_sm

> python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg

> python -m spacy download fr_core_news_lg

For more SpaCy language models installation guidelines, please refer to SpaCy Models & Languages.

Step 6: Download NLP-training Labs Resources

1. Go to the resources folder located at Google Drive.

2. Download the whole folder as zip and save it into your local drive (make sure you know the file location).

3. Use WinRAR or any other tools to unzip the resources.zip to your nlp-traininglabs root folder.

4. After finish the all the steps, your root folder should looks similar to this: