Chapter 2: Flair Base Types
A good place to start with any NLP framework is getting comfortable with its basic objects and methods used frequently throughout the code. In Flair, the first step is getting familiar with its base types. These are the basic objects that are used for defining sentences or text fragments and forming tokens through tokenization.
One of the main challenges NLP is struggling with today is its support for underrepresented languages. Most state-of-the-art prebuilt NLP models are usually built only for some of the most spoken languages, while failing to provide support for the roughly 7,000 other languages spoken on the planet today. While Flair stands out with its excellent language coverage and its work on multilingual ...
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