Does spaCy no longer have a universal multilingual NER model, xx_ent_wiki_sm ? Other workaround?

[gopalika14]

My error: OSError: [E050] Can't find model 'xx_ent_wiki_sm'. It doesn't seem to be a Python package or a valid path to a data directory.
I am using spacy==3.6.1.

My complete error log is here:
WARNING: Language eu does not exist in our mapping, using Spacy multilingual. Downloading model xx_ent_wiki_sm Download finished Traceback (most recent call last): File "/root/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/nlpie_nlp/deid/spacy_deid.py", line 81, in get_model model = spacy.load(model_name) File "/root/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/spacy/__init__.py", line 51, in load return util.load_model( File "/root/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/spacy/util.py", line 472, in load_model raise IOError(Errors.E050.format(name=name)) OSError: [E050] Can't find model 'xx_ent_wiki_sm'. It doesn't seem to be a Python package or a valid path to a data directory.

[weezymatt]

Hi @gopalika14

Was your installation for xx_ent_wiki_sm successful?

I tried installing the ner pipeline in a virtual environment and it worked. Here as my terminal commands:

# setup (ignore)
pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
pip install -U 'spacy[apple]'
python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm

# download ner model
python -m spacy download xx_ent_wiki_sm                          

Let's try an example:

import spacy

nlp = spacy.load("xx_ent_wiki_sm")
doc = nlp("Sr. Hernandez nació en Francia.")

for ent in doc.ents:
    print(ent.text, ent.label_)

# Hernandez PER
# Francia LOC