Initially I downloaded two en packages using following statements in anaconda prompt.

python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

But, I kept on getting linkage error and finally running below command helped me to establish link and solved error.

python -m spacy download en

Also make sure you to restart your runtime if working with Jupyter. -PS : If you get linkage error try giving admin previlages.

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OSError: [E050] Can't find model 'en_core_web_sm'. It doesn't seem to be a shortcut link, a Python package or a valid path to a data directory. · Issue #4577 · explosion/spaCy
November 2, 2019 - I have installed spacy and downloaded en_core_web_sm with: pip3 install spacy python3 -m spacy download en_core_web_sm When running codes on Python3 default IDLE, it runs successfully: import spacy spacy.load("en_core_web_sm") However, w...
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Initially I downloaded two en packages using following statements in anaconda prompt.

python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

But, I kept on getting linkage error and finally running below command helped me to establish link and solved error.

python -m spacy download en

Also make sure you to restart your runtime if working with Jupyter. -PS : If you get linkage error try giving admin previlages.

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The answer to your misunderstanding is a Unix concept, softlinks which we could say that in Windows are similar to shortcuts. Let's explain this.

When you spacy download en, spaCy tries to find the best small model that matches your spaCy distribution. The small model that I am talking about defaults to en_core_web_sm which can be found in different variations which correspond to the different spaCy versions (for example spacy, spacy-nightly have en_core_web_sm of different sizes).

When spaCy finds the best model for you, it downloads it and then links the name en to the package it downloaded, e.g. en_core_web_sm. That basically means that whenever you refer to en you will be referring to en_core_web_sm. In other words, en after linking is not a "real" package, is just a name for en_core_web_sm.

However, it doesn't work the other way. You can't refer directly to en_core_web_sm because your system doesn't know you have it installed. When you did spacy download en you basically did a pip install. So pip knows that you have a package named en installed for your python distribution, but knows nothing about the package en_core_web_sm. This package is just replacing package en when you import it, which means that package en is just a softlink to en_core_web_sm.

Of course, you can directly download en_core_web_sm, using the command: python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm, or you can even link the name en to other models as well. For example, you could do python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg and then python -m spacy link en_core_web_lg en. That would make en a name for en_core_web_lg, which is a large spaCy model for the English language.

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Hello @Tinniam V Ganesh ,

Apologize for the delay in response.

As per the repro from our end it's working as expected without any error message:

  • Cluster - 9.1 LTS (includes Apache Spark 3.1.2, Scala 2.12)
  • Python - 3.8.10
  • spaCy version 3.3

I'm able to run without any issue:

For more details, refer to NLP with Python and spaCy - First Steps(Python).

Hope this will help. Please let us know if any further queries.

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Hi @PRADEEPCHEEKATLA
Here are the details

Cluster - 9.1 LTS (includes Apache Spark 3.1.2, Scala 2.12)
Python - 3.8.10
spaCy version 3.3

Code snippet

import spacy  
!python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm   
from spacy import displacy  
  
nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")  
# Process whole documents  
text = ("When Sebastian Thrun started working on self-driving cars at "  
        "Google in 2007, few people outside of the company took him "  
        "seriously. “I can tell you very senior CEOs of major American "  
        "car companies would shake my hand and turn away because I wasn’t "  
        "worth talking to,” said Thrun, in an interview with Recode earlier "  
        "this week.")  
doc = nlp(text)  

The error I get is "OSError: [E050] Can't find model 'en_core_web_sm'. It doesn't seem to be a Python package or a valid path to a data directory."

I also see these messages. I don't know if it is relevant

/databricks/python3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/spacy/util.py:845: UserWarning: [W094] Model 'en_core_web_sm' (2.2.5) specifies an under-constrained spaCy version requirement: >=2.2.2. This can lead to compatibility problems with older versions, or as new spaCy versions are released, because the model may say it's compatible when it's not. Consider changing the "spacy_version" in your meta.json to a version range, with a lower and upper pin. For example: >=3.3.0,<3.4.0 warnings.warn(warn_msg)

Also the message when installing 'en_core_web_sm"

"Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable"

As I had mentioned, this worked briefly and then stopped.

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Error: Can't find model 'en_core_web_sm'. It doesn't seem to be a Python package or a valid path to a data directory · explosion/spaCy · Discussion #10895
I worked with nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm") having generated .exe with PyInstaller, considering that in the python interpreter environment the software worked well. When executing the .exe the following error occurred: Error: Can't find model 'en_core_web_sm'.
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If you’re running your own internal PyPi installation, you can upload the pipeline packages there. pip’s requirements file format supports both package names to download via a PyPi server, as well as direct URLs. For instance, you can specify the en_core_web_sm model for spaCy 3.7.x as follows:
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[E050] Can‘t find model ‘en_core_web_sm‘. 错误_can't find model 'en core web sm. it doesn't seem -CSDN博客
完整的报错为:这个错误的原因是环境中找不到en_core_web_sm这个包。 导致这个错误的原因有两个:本文给出第一种情况解决方案,第二种可参考此方法1.conda命令配置: 2.从GitHub上下载安装: 建议指定en_core_web_sm版本,使的spacy与en_core_web_sm版本一致,否则也会出现错误情况,参考此链接以上参考:安装spacy的问题:Can‘t find model ‘en_core_web_sm‘
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To solve the error, download the model by issuing the python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm command.
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February 25, 2021 -

Hi guys

So i am new to python and trying to work in pycharm with some sentiment analysis. I keep getting this error though and was wondering if anyone knows how to solve it?

This is my execution:

import spacy
import en_core_web_sm
nlps = spacy.load('en-core-web-sm')

And i am getting this:

[W031] Model 'en_core_web_sm' (2.2.5) requires spaCy v2.2 and is incompatible with the current spaCy version (2.3.3). This may lead to unexpected results or runtime errors. To resolve this, download a newer compatible model or retrain your custom model with the current spaCy version. For more details and available updates, run: python -m spacy validate

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\Users\y\PycharmProjects\pythonProject1\main.py", line 30, in <module>

nlps = spacy.load('en-core-web-sm')

File "C:\Users\y\PycharmProjects\pythonProject1\venv\lib\site-packages\spacy\__init__.py", line 30, in load

return util.load_model(name, **overrides)

File "C:\Users\y\PycharmProjects\pythonProject1\venv\lib\site-packages\spacy\util.py", line 175, in load_model

raise IOError(Errors.E050.format(name=name))

OSError: [E050] Can't find model 'en-core-web-sm'. It doesn't seem to be a shortcut link, a Python package or a valid path to a data directory.

I don't understand how the package requires, spaCy 2,2 (which doesn't exist in Pycharm), but it also says that the models doesnt exist, despite me just installing it.

Any help?

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This error may occur when running the spacy command from the command line. spaCy does not currently add an entry to your PATH environment variable, as this can lead to unexpected results, especially when using a virtual environment.
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OSError: [E050] Can't find model 'en_core_web_sm'. It doesn't seem to be a Python package or a valid path to a data directory
September 19, 2023 - Please use the full pipeline package name 'en_core_web_sm' instead. Collecting en-core-web-sm==3.6.0 Downloading https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-3.6.0/en_core_web_sm-3.6.0-py3-none-any.whl (12.8 MB) |████████████████...
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OSError: [E050] Can't find model 'en_core_web_sm'. It doesn't seem to be a shortcut link, a Python package or a valid path to a data directory.
Models are installed as Python packages by running pip in a subprocess. And pip errors can sometimes be a bit subtle and not immediately obvious in the output. ... It doesn't seem to be a shortcut link, a Python package or a valid path to a data directory. error in Python when...Read more > Error in Installing spacy en_core_web_lg | Solved in less than ...
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Cannot load any other models except "en_core_web_sm" · Issue #3844 · explosion/spaCy
April 4, 2019 - How to reproduce the problem I installed spacy and the different models by following the instructions provided in the website e.g pip install -U spacy, python -m spacy download en_core_web_lg or python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm bu...
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English · spaCy Models Documentation
Trained Pipelines · Catalan · Chinese · Croatian · Danish · Dutch · English · en_core_web_sm · en_core_web_md · en_core_web_lg · en_core_web_trf · Finnish · French · German · Greek · Italian · Japanese · Korean · Lithuanian · Macedonian · Multi-language ·