Sofie Van Landeghem

@adrianeboyd : would love to hear your ideas as well!

> Current `Underscore` behavior is inconsistent with `Span`'s equality concept. And can cause confusion when `Spans` overwrite each other 's `_` values. Yep, I definitely agree that the current behaviour...

Maintenance update: we're putting this specific PR/issue on hold until we've decided on how to proceed with the `shared_ptr` idea: https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/pull/9869

We had a similar situation for the `entity_linker`, where a new implementation of the component wasn't compatible anymore with older config versions. What we decided at the time is to...

Hi @HaakonME ! > There is a danger of users complying with the general recommendation of filtering out stop words, while being unaware of filtering out important entities from their...

Unfortunately this is a known limitation, tied to how the config files are parsed & interpreted. cf https://github.com/explosion/thinc/pull/488: > one additional issue couldn't be resolved: if you have an integer...

Hm. I'm not sure yet what's going on. Just as a sanity check, could you try running the exact same thing but replacing ``` name = "microsoft/BiomedNLP-PubMedBERT-base-uncased-abstract" ``` with ```...

Yes, it certainly looks like it. I can't yet say where the actual problem is located though - perhaps `spacy-transformers` is making some assumptions that aren't valid for all different...

This hasn't been resolved yet, no. Progress will be reported in this thread.

Maintenance note: potentially related issue: https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/discussions/8846