Explosion builds **developer tools** for AI, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.

### Project

- [spaCy](/content/_/project/spacy/index.html)
- [Prodigy](/content/_/project/prodigy/index.html)
- [Ellf](/content/_/project/ellf/index.html)
- [Thinc](/content/_/project/thinc/index.html)

### Topics

- [LLMs](/content/_/topic/llms/index.html)
- [NLP Strategy](/content/_/topic/strategy/index.html)
- [Annotation](/content/site-root.html)
- [Biomedical](/content/_/topic/biomedical/index.html)
- [Finance](/content/_/topic/finance/index.html)
- [Media](/content/_/topic/media/index.html)
- [Legal](/content/_/topic/legal/index.html)
- [Humanities](/content/_/topic/humanities/index.html)
- [Computer Vision](/content/_/topic/computer-vision/index.html)

### Category

- [Blog](/content/_/category/blog/index.html)
- [Release](/content/_/category/release/index.html)
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### Tasks

Select...Code GenerationCoreference ResolutionDependency ParsingDistillationEmbeddings & VectorsEntity LinkingEvaluationImage ClassificationImage SegmentationLayout AnalysisLemmatizationNamed Entity RecognitionObject DetectionOptical Character Recognition (OCR)Part-of-Speech TaggingPII AnonymizationQuestion AnsweringRelation ExtractionRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Rule-Based MatchingSpan CategorizationText ClassificationText GenerationTokenizationWeak Supervision

### Authors

Select...Adriane BoydÁkos KádárBasile DuraChung-Fan TsaiDamian RomeroDaniël de KokDuygu AltinokEdward SchmuhlHelena SteckmeisterIndia KerleInes MontaniKabir KhanLj MirandaMadeesh KannanMagdalena AniołMatthew HonnibalPaul O’Leary McCannPeter BaumgartnerPhilip VolletRaphael MitschRehan AhmedRichard HudsonRyan WesslenSofie Van LandeghemVictoria SlocumVincent D. WarmerdamVinit RavishankarWalter Henry

## [Vibe NLP for Applied NLP](https://speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/vibe-nlp-for-applied-nlp) [PyCon DE & PyData](https://speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/vibe-nlp-for-applied-nlp)

[What if we could take learnings from AI-powered coding agents and apply them to solving real-world NLP problems? In this talk, I’ll show how we’ve built a powerful virtual NLP assistant to help developers create practical and modular solutions that are small, fast and fully data-private.](https://speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/vibe-nlp-for-applied-nlp)

## [How to advocate for modular NLP in the age of Generative AI](/content/blog/modular-nlp-generative-ai/index.html)

[With all the hype around Generative AI, many are led to believe it’s the solution to everything. So how can you, as a developer, communicate the nuances and advocate for new and modular solutions that are better, easier and cheaper?](/content/blog/modular-nlp-generative-ai/index.html)

[**✨ prodigy v1.18.0Feb 24, 2025** \\ Text editing during NER and span annotation, custom translations and more JavaScript features](https://prodi.gy/docs/changelog#v1.18.0)

[**✨ prodigy v1.16.0Oct 22, 2024** \\ Modal plugin for on-demand deployment, cross-platform wheels and UI fixes](https://prodi.gy/docs/changelog#v1.16.0)

## [Practical Tips for Bootstrapping Information Extraction Pipelines](https://speakerdeck.com/honnibal/practical-tips-for-bootstrapping-information-extraction-pipelines) [DataHack Summit](https://speakerdeck.com/honnibal/practical-tips-for-bootstrapping-information-extraction-pipelines)

[This talk presents approaches for bootstrapping NLP pipelines and retrieval via information extraction, including tips for training, modelling and data annotation.](https://speakerdeck.com/honnibal/practical-tips-for-bootstrapping-information-extraction-pipelines)

## [Who said what: using machine learning to correctly attribute quotes](https://www.theguardian.com/info/2023/nov/21/who-said-what-using-machine-learning-to-correctly-attribute-quotes) [The Guardian Engineering Blog](https://www.theguardian.com/info/2023/nov/21/who-said-what-using-machine-learning-to-correctly-attribute-quotes)

[How the Guardian uses spaCy and Prodigy to train a custom coreference resolution model.](https://www.theguardian.com/info/2023/nov/21/who-said-what-using-machine-learning-to-correctly-attribute-quotes)

## [A practical guide to human-in-the-loop distillation](/content/blog/human-in-the-loop-distillation/index.html)

[This blog post presents practical solutions for using the latest state-of-the-art models in real-world applications and distilling their knowledge into smaller and faster components that you can run and maintain in-house.](/content/blog/human-in-the-loop-distillation/index.html)

## [How Love Without Sound helps the music industry recover millions in revenue for artists with NLP, spaCy and Prodigy](/content/blog/love-without-sound-nlp-music-industry/index.html)

[A case study on Love Without Sound’s innovative AI-powered tools for the music industry and law firms specializing in royalty negotiations.](/content/blog/love-without-sound-nlp-music-industry/index.html)