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Matthew Honnibal is a computational linguist from Sydney based in Berlin, Germany. He's the author of the spaCy Natural Language Processing library and the co-founder of Explosion.
Because it runs locally, users have to provide their own infrastructure solution to host it, and develop their own workflows for project management tasks such as assigning work to different annotators. We have to test and benchmark on a matrix of CPU and GPU hardware; Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems; Python versions; and packaging solutions (pip and conda). And then in addition to this memory-managed code, there’s all the GPU-specific considerations, all the numpy minutiae, and maintaining compatibility with a big matrix of Python versions, operating systems and hardware.
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