Note for the 2018-19 edition: SpaCy and Windows users

[filievski]

Installing SpaCy+its english model on Windows appeared to be quite a challenge. Hopefully now we have a solution.

Note: run all of this in the anaconda command prompt, and as administrator.

1. Installing SpaCy - if you have problems with installing spacy itself, then first update anaconda by running: conda update anaconda. After this, install spacy as suggested by spacy.io for your platform.

2. Downloading SpaCy's english model - If you have problems with this, then first run:

pip install https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-1.2.0/en_core_web_sm-1.2.0.tar.gz

and then download the english model as suggested by spacy.io for your platform.