✨ New features and improvements

• NEW: span_finder pipeline component to identify overlapping, unlabeled spans (#12507).
• Language updates:
  • Add initial support for Malay (#12602).
  • Update Latin defaults to support noun chunks, update lexical/tokenizer defaults and add example sentences (#12538).
• Add option to return scores separately keyed by component name with spacy evaluate --per-component, Language.evaluate(per_component=True) and Scorer.score(per_component=True) (#12540).
• Support custom token/lexeme attribute for vectors (#12625).
• Support spancat_singlelabel in spacy debug data CLI (#12749).
• Typing updates for PhraseMatcher and SpanGroup (#12642, #12714).

🔴 Bug fixes

• 12569: Require that all SpanGroup spans come from the current doc.

📦 Trained pipelines updates

We have added new pipelines for Slovenian that use the trainable lemmatizer and floret vectors.

| Package | UPOS | Parser LAS | NER F |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| sl_core_news_sm | 96.9 | 82.1 | 62.9 |
| sl_core_news_md | 97.6 | 84.3 | 73.5 |
| sl_core_news_lg | 97.7 | 84.3 | 79.0 |
| sl_core_news_trf | 99.0 | 91.7 | 90.0 |

• 🙏 Special thanks to @orglce for help with the new pipelines!

The English pipelines have been updated to improve handling of contractions with various apostrophes and to lemmatize "get" as a passive auxiliary.

The Danish pipeline da_core_news_trf has been updated to use vesteinn/DanskBERT with performance improvements across the board.

⚠️ Backwards incompatibilities

• SpanGroup spans are now required to be from the same doc. When initializing a SpanGroup, there is a new check to verify that all added spans refer to the current doc. Without this check, it was possible to run into string store or other errors.

📖 Documentation and examples

• Various documentation corrections and updates.
• New additions to spaCy Universe:
  • spaCy-SetFit
  • spacy-vscode
  • SpanMarker
  • vetiver

👥 Contributors

@adrianeboyd, @bdura, @danieldk, @davidberenstein1957, @diyclassics, @essenmitsosse, @honnibal, @ines, @isabelizimm, @jmyerston, @kadarakos, @KennethEnevoldsen, @khursani8, @ljvmiranda921, @rmitsch, @shadeMe, @svlandeg, @tomaarsen, @victorialslocum, @vin-ivar, @ZiadAmerr