spaCy NER Skill

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spaCy NER model training and entity extraction for conversational AI

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the spaCy NER Skill skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by a5c-ai/babysitter in library/specializations/ai-agents-conversational/skills/spacy-ner/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Capabilities

  • Train custom spaCy NER models
  • Configure entity extraction pipelines
  • Design annotation schemas
  • Implement entity linking
  • Set up model evaluation
  • Deploy efficient NER inference

Target Processes

  • entity-extraction-slot-filling
  • chatbot-design-implementation

Implementation Details

spaCy Components

  1. NER: Named Entity Recognition
  2. EntityLinker: Link to knowledge bases
  3. EntityRuler: Rule-based matching
  4. SpanCategorizer: Overlapping entities

Training Configuration

  • config.cfg setup
  • Training data format (spaCy v3)
  • Augmentation strategies
  • Evaluation metrics

Configuration Options

  • Base model selection (en_core_web_*)
  • Custom entity types
  • Training parameters
  • GPU acceleration
  • Model packaging

Best Practices

  • Quality annotation data
  • Balance entity types
  • Use prodigy for annotation
  • Regular model evaluation

Dependencies

  • spacy
  • spacy-transformers (optional)

Signals

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Item type
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Key
spacy-ner
Source
github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter