{"id":371271,"date":"2019-05-22T18:45:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T18:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=371271"},"modified":"2019-05-22T18:45:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T18:45:01","slug":"spark-nlp-becomes-the-worlds-most-widely-used-nlp-library-in-the-enterprise-within-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/spark-nlp-becomes-the-worlds-most-widely-used-nlp-library-in-the-enterprise-within-18-months_371271.html","title":{"rendered":"Spark NLP becomes the world&#8217;s most widely used NLP library in the enterprise within 18 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\" width:250px; padding:8px 10px 10px 10px; float:right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1558543354.jpeg\" style=\"border:none !important;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1558543354.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style:italic; padding:8px 0px;\">O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s &#8220;AI Adoption in the Enterprise&#8221; survey also reports that Spark NLP is the 5th most widely used ML library overall<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The annual O&rsquo;Reilly report on&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.yesware.com\/tt\/d9c54b3648ca5282b8ef03e89f96362d09165d81\/01bba518df4a199c8f225ec46d61745d\/276f3d3693994888181a1fcf1c0a5ed1\/www.oreilly.com\/data\/free\/ai-adoption-in-the-enterprise.csp\" target=\"_blank\">AI Adoption in the Enterprise<\/a>, released in February 2019, is a survey of 1,300 practitioners in multiple industry verticals, which asked respondents about revenue-bearing AI projects their organizations have in production and also to list all the ML or AI frameworks and tools which they use. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.yesware.com\/tt\/d9c54b3648ca5282b8ef03e89f96362d09165d81\/01bba518df4a199c8f225ec46d61745d\/b829c0b80843ab3ebe53e800aeefde6b\/www.johnsnowlabs.com\/spark-nlp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spark NLP library<\/a><strong>&nbsp;was listed as the 5<sup>th&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/sup>most popular across all AI frameworks<\/strong>&nbsp;&ndash; following only scikit-learn, TensorFlow, keras, and PyTorch. It was also by far the most widely used NLP library &ndash; twice as common as spaCy, which was the closest on this ranking. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>John Snow Labs SPARK NLP main benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><em>Accuracy.&nbsp;<\/em>More accurate than spaCy,&nbsp;Stanford CoreNLP,&nbsp;nltk, and&nbsp;OpenNLP, due to implementation of recent deep learning networks and embeddings\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Speed.&nbsp;<\/em>NLP pipelines can run&nbsp;<em>2-3<\/em>&nbsp;<em>orders of magnitude faster&nbsp;for training of custom NLP models\n<p><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Scalability.&nbsp;<\/em>Built on Apache Spark ML, Spark NLP can scale on any Spark cluster, on-premise or in any cloud provider.&nbsp;\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Production-grade codebase.&nbsp;<\/em>Built for enterprises, in contrast to research-oriented libraries like&nbsp;AllenNLP&nbsp;and&nbsp;NLP Architect.\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Permissive open source license.&nbsp;<\/em>The library can be used freely, including&nbsp; in a commercial setting.<strong>&nbsp;\n<p><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Full Python, Java and Scala APIs.&nbsp;<\/em>Supporting multiple programming languages and enables to take advantage of the implemented models without having to move data.&nbsp;\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Frequent Releases.&nbsp;<\/em>Released about twice a month &ndash; there were&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.yesware.com\/tt\/d9c54b3648ca5282b8ef03e89f96362d09165d81\/01bba518df4a199c8f225ec46d61745d\/2181af27e920b674c1f4eb8b392b66bf\/github.com\/JohnSnowLabs\/spark-nlp\/releases\" target=\"_blank\">26 new releases in 2018<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><br \/> <strong>John Snow Labs SPARK NLP 2.0 &ndash; the biggest release to date<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This Spark NLP 2.0 release merges 50 pull requests, improving accuracy and ease and use. It&#8217;s the largest single release since the library was first&nbsp;introduced. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Spark NLP is the first library to have a production-ready implementation of&nbsp;<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.yesware.com\/tt\/d9c54b3648ca5282b8ef03e89f96362d09165d81\/01bba518df4a199c8f225ec46d61745d\/38e04cbaa49373859506d3d52043b16e\/www.johnsnowlabs.com\/spark-nlp-2-0-bert-embeddings-pre-trained-pipelines-improved-ner-and-ocr-accuracy-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\">BERT embeddings<\/a>&nbsp;for named entity recognition. Here are the biggest enhancements in this release:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Revamped and enhanced Named Entity Recognition (NER) Deep Learning models to a new state of the art level, reaching up to 93% F1 micro-averaged accuracy in the industry standard.<\/li>\n<li>Word Embeddings as well as Bert Embeddings are now annotators<\/li>\n<li>TensorFlow version upgrade and use of contrib LSTM Cells<\/li>\n<li>Performance and memory usage improvements&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Revamped and expanded pre-trained pipelines list, and new pre-trained models for different languages and new example notebooks<\/li>\n<li>OCR module improvements for increased accuracy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><br \/> <strong>About John Snow Labs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnsnowlabs.com\" target=\"_blank\">John Snow Labs<\/a> Inc. is an award-winning healthcare AI company, accelerating progress in data science by taking on the headache of managing platforms, models and data. A third of the team have a PhD or MD degree and 75% of team members have at least a Master&rsquo;s, coming from multiple disciplines covering data science, medicine, data engineering, pharma, security, and DataOps. A Delaware Corporation, John Snow Labs runs as a global virtual team located in 16 countries around the globe. The company believes in being great partners, in making customers wildly successful, and in using data philanthropy to make the world a better place.<\/p>\n<p><span style='font-size:18px !important;'>Media Contact<\/span><br \/><strong>Company Name:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/companyname\/johnsnowlabs.com_23864.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Snow Labs<\/a><br \/><strong>Contact Person:<\/strong> Ida Lucente<br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/email_contact_us.php?pr=spark-nlp-becomes-the-worlds-most-widely-used-nlp-library-in-the-enterprise-within-18-months\" rel=\"nofollow\">Send Email<\/a><br \/><strong>Phone:<\/strong> +1 (302) 786-5227<br \/><strong>Address:<\/strong>16192 Coastal Highway  <br \/><strong>City:<\/strong> Lewes<br \/><strong>State:<\/strong> Delaware 19958<br \/><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<br \/><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnsnowlabs.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.johnsnowlabs.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/press_stat.php?pr=spark-nlp-becomes-the-worlds-most-widely-used-nlp-library-in-the-enterprise-within-18-months\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s &#8220;AI Adoption in the Enterprise&#8221; survey also reports that Spark NLP is the 5th most widely used ML library overall The annual O&rsquo;Reilly report on&nbsp;AI Adoption in the Enterprise, released in February 2019, is a survey of 1,300 practitioners &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/spark-nlp-becomes-the-worlds-most-widely-used-nlp-library-in-the-enterprise-within-18-months_371271.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[401],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}