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Install

Fig. 1 Choose your HanLP version

Install RESTful Packages

Beginners Attention

Hint

New to NLP? Just install RESTful packages and call parse() without pain.

For beginners, the recommended RESTful packages are easier to start with. The only requirement is an auth key. We officially released the following language bindings:

Python

pip install hanlp_restful

Java

See Java instructions.

Install Native Package

The native package running locally can be installed via pip.

pip install hanlp

HanLP requires Python 3.6 or later. GPU/TPU is suggested but not mandatory. Depending on your preference, HanLP offers the following flavors:

Windows Support

Note

Installation on Windows is perfectly supported. The full version hanlp[full] additionally requires Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools to compile C++ extensions.

Flavor	Description
default	This installs the default version which delivers the most commonly used functionalities. However, some heavy dependencies like TensorFlow are not installed.
full	For experts who seek to maximize the efficiency via TensorFlow and C++ extensions, pip install hanlp[full] installs every dependency HanLP will use in production.

Install Models

In short, you don’t need to manually install any model. Instead, they are automatically downloaded to a directory called HANLP_HOME when you call hanlp.load. Occasionally, some errors might occur the first time you load a model, in which case you can refer to the following tips.

Download Error

If the auto-download fails, you can either:

1. Retry as our file server might be busy serving users from all over the world.

2. Follow the message on your terminal, which often guides you to manually download a zip file to a particular path.

3. Use a mirror site which could be faster and stabler in your region.

Server without Internet

If your server has no Internet access at all, just debug your codes on your local PC and copy the following directory to your server via a USB disk.

1. ~/.hanlp: the home directory for HanLP models.

2. ~/.cache/huggingface: the home directory for Hugging Face 🤗 Transformers.

Import Error

Some TensorFlow/fastText models will ask you to install the missing TensorFlow/fastText modules, in which case you’ll need to install the full version:

pip install hanlp[full]

Caution

DO NOT install TensorFlow/fastText by yourself, as higher or lower versions of TensorFlow have not been tested and might not work properly.

Tutorial Configuration