spaCy - Span.merge Method

As the name implies, this method of Span class will retokenize the document in a way that the span is merged into a single token.

Example

An example of Span.merge method is as follows −

import spacy
nlp_model = spacy.load("en_core_web_sm")
doc = nlp_model("This is Tutorialspoint.com.")
span = doc[1:4]
doc[2].text

Output

When you run the code, you will see the following output −

'Tutorialspoint.com'