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by jonathankoren 3677 days ago
So FoxType is just Spacy[0]? I honestly thought this might be something different until I checked out the Spacy page and saw FoxType listed as a customer. Kind of a dick move simply repackaging other people's work and passing. It off as your own. (Yes, this is literally just the "displacy" demo.)

Spacy is a pretty good system. It's fast, way faster thank NLTK and the Stanford stuff and it's pretty accurate. Also it's licensing is pretty flexible. The only knock I have against it is the lack of bindings for languages other than Python, but whatever.

[0] https://spacy.io/

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There's more to their product it seems than just the front end for sentence diagramming. While a shout out wouldn't hurt, I don't think it's really a dick move.
There's also more to Spacy than just dependency parsing as well, but that's a big part of it.

I would certainly hope there's more to FoxLab, but I have literally seen this demo before.

I have also been around the block enough times to know that putting some ill fitting duct tape around a bunch of other libraries that do all the work to make a quick buck in a hot space is a very common trick as well.